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parser
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Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown
Thoroughly scraping is challenging, especially in an environment where you donāt have (or want) a JavaScript runtime.
For content extraction, I found the approach the Postlight library takes quite neat. It scores individual html nodes based on some heuristics (text length, link density, css classes). It the selects the nodes with the highest score. [1] I ported it to Swift for a personal read later app.
[1] https://github.com/postlight/parser
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Trouble Building Chrome Extension to Get News Article Content
I've been working on an enhanced reader mode extension for the last few months. I found that Mercury Reader's parser tool is useful for extracting content. If that's not exactly what you're looking for, readibility is another good option. It's a library used inside Firefox's reader moder that you can use in any project.
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What Are The Coolest Virtual Machines You Currently Run 24/7?
I currently have it turned off while I search for better sources, but I have a VM that runs a custom cron script that combines a custom RSS reader, podfox, mercury-parser, and coqui-ai to generate audio podcasts from RSS news feeds. I should probably clean it up and release the script/setup process. With a few tweaks and some AI text-to-speech and a little machine learning audio processing you can get a really good podcast experience from text posts.
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Extracting Text button no longer works
It looks like Relay could be updated to convert it locally though, since the parser that it uses appears to be open source.
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Which are some open-source Chrome extensions you want to use on Firefox?
https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser The only one I need, shit's too good
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API for getting news fulltext
An alternative would be to extract the plain text from the article's page with either some "readability" API or a library like Mercury Parser: https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser
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How does Firefox's Reader View work?
I havenāt directly compared them, but I have also found mercury parser (https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser) to be very reliable.
Since it turns a website into very plain (X)HTML itās fairly easy to use it to make a browsing proxy or automatically produce epub files for e-readers, which is what I do.
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Build your self-hosted Evernote
Make sure that at the end of the process you have the node and npm executables installed - the http.webpage integration uses the Mercury Parser API to convert web pages to Markdown.
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Reading from the web offline and distraction-free
Good luck! Those HTML issues you're coming across are tough and so varied across the web!
I was working with Mercury Parser (pluggable parsing for different sites) in the past.
https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser
- The most underused browser feature
tidy-html5
- Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown
- Localize HTML Tidy (README.md)
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libtidy, compilation errors
So I included the tidy libraries in my project.
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Searching for the *old* W3C XHTML/CSS validator or something of equivalent functionality
Maybe look into HTML Tidy. It's job is to clean up HTML and convert legacy code to modern form, so it knows about DTDs. You might be able to pass it some options to get what you want.
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Converting a IETM delivered in HTML to XML S1000D 4.0.
I've always used tidy for HTML/XML formatting jobs.
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Expand one very long HTML line (>30k characters) as multi-line formatted indented HTML?
Personally I use command that switches the file type to html, and then formats it with tidy. It assumes you're pasting into a new buffer.
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Unminify HTML in terminal
I use tidy.
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Inspecting the Clipboard (on Linux)
So I installed HTML tidy.
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The most underused browser feature
Prune instructs the parser to remove any elements within the extracted article block that look superfluous. This can result in false positives, so we tend to disable it when we've gone to the trouble of creating site-specific extraction rules.
Tidy determines if the source HTML should be cleaned up first with HTML Tidy - https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5. If you're parsing the source HTML with an HTML 5 parser, as we are now, it shouldn't be necessary any more (I think we actually ignore it now). We used it more before when we relied on libxml parsing, which often trips up on modern HTML.
What are some alternatives?
readability - A standalone version of the readability lib
readability.php - PHP port of Mozilla's Readability.js
hn-search - Hacker News Search
readability - Readability is a library written in Go (golang) to parse, analyze and convert HTML pages into readable content. Originally an Arc90 Experiment, it is now incorporated into Safariās Reader View.
Just-Read - A customizable read mode web extension.
toltec - Community-maintained repository of free software for the reMarkableĀ tablet.
FParsec - A parser combinator library for F#
SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool
ftr-site-config - Site-specific article extraction rules to aid content extractors, feed readers, and 'read later' applications.
arc90-readability - A copy of the original Arc90 repo with links to many of the current ports.