percollate VS BasicCrawler

Compare percollate vs BasicCrawler and see what are their differences.

percollate

A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs. (by danburzo)

BasicCrawler

Basic web crawler that automates website exploration and producing web resource trees. (by learningequality)
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percollate BasicCrawler
14 1
4,108 3
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5.9 10.0
3 months ago almost 4 years ago
JavaScript Jupyter Notebook
MIT License MIT License
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percollate

Posts with mentions or reviews of percollate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.

BasicCrawler

Posts with mentions or reviews of BasicCrawler. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-10.
  • Reading from the web offline and distraction-free
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2021
    Very cool.

    The take-any-webpage-offline need is also common in the education space (teachers want to save a webpage and send it to their students as part of a lesson and don't want to worry about availability or ads etc).

    I used to work on tools for this https://github.com/learningequality/ricecooker/blob/develop/... and https://github.com/learningequality/BasicCrawler/blob/master...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing percollate and BasicCrawler you can also consider the following projects:

rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool

koodo-reader - A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for Windows, macOS, Linux and Web

SingleFile - Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file

zimit - Make a ZIM file from any Web site and surf offline!

monolith-of-web - A chrome extension to make a single static HTML file of the web page using a WebAssembly port of monolith CLI

parser - 📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page

Readability4J - A Kotlin port of Mozilla‘s Readability. It extracts a website‘s relevant content and removes all clutter from it.

Lurnby - A tool for active reading and personal knowledge management

url-to-epub - A simple script that generates an EPUB from a single URL, zero-config

Shiori - Simple bookmark manager built with Go

gImageReader - A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.