rdrview VS url-to-epub

Compare rdrview vs url-to-epub and see what are their differences.

url-to-epub

A simple script that generates an EPUB from a single URL, zero-config (by captn3m0)
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rdrview url-to-epub
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4.1 0.0
about 2 months ago almost 2 years ago
C JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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rdrview

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url-to-epub

Posts with mentions or reviews of url-to-epub. 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
    I do a lot of this work[3] (web to documents) and it's interesting to see other approaches. The medium image problem is something I've faced as well, but never got around to fixing. I'm planning to get a Remarkable soon, so will definitely be trying this out.

    My personal solution has been https://github.com/captn3m0/url-to-epub/ (Node/readability), which I've tested against the entirety of Tor's original fiction collection[0] where it performs well enough (I'm biased). Another tool that does this beautifully well is percollate[1], but it doesn't give enough control of the metadata to the user - something I really care about.

    I've also started to use rdrview[2], which is a C-port of the current Firefox implementation of "reader view". It is very unix-y, so it is easy to pipe content to it (I usually run it through tidy first). Quite helpful in building web-archiving or web-to-pdf or web-to-kindle pipelines easily.

    [0]: https://www.tor.com/category/all-fiction/original-fiction/

    [1]: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate

    [2]: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview

    [3]: https://captnemo.in/ebooks/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rdrview and url-to-epub you can also consider the following projects:

percollate - A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs.

go-readability - Go package that cleans a HTML page for better readability.

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

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

ricecooker - Python library for creating Kolibri channels and uploading to Studio

hackernews-TUI - A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News

w3m - Debian's w3m: WWW browsable pager

arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"

awesome-hackernews - A curated list of FOSS tools to improve the Hacker News experience.

cbsd - Yet one more wrapper around jail, bhyve, QEMU and XEN