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rdrview
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Mozilla: Readability.js
See also the C port here: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview/
It works well with text-mode browsers like w3m.
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firefox 'naked'
i also use rdrview sometimes.
- Is there a CLI tool to download only the relevant text from an article? A mix of Curl and the tranqulity firefox addon?
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w3m rocks
They both parse untrusted content content without sandboxing.
I typically send content through rdrview[0] before piping through w3m-sandbox[1], which should be pretty safe.
[0]: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/bwrap-scripts/tree/trunk/item/w3m-...
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reader, a minimal command line reader offering better readability of web pages on the CLI
Could have been nice to have this integrated to w3m. Somthing along the lines of rdrview.
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Reading from the web offline and distraction-free
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
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Show HN: Hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to Browse Hacker News Discussions
Two projects that do this with nearly identical output:
- https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
- https://github.com/go-shiori/go-readability
Pipe the filtered HTML output into your favorite textual web browser for an ideal reading experience.
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Newsboat / w3m show only article data
This may help if you can do some piping around it.. https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2021)
SEEKING WORK | Argentina | Remote
Email: [email protected]
I'm a programmer, most familiar with C on Linux and Win32. I'll be happy to start a project from scratch, or to help support any old codebase. For a sample of my work please see rdrview [1], a small command line tool that found some success here on Hacker News; or [2], a naive filesystem implementation I've been working on.
My current rate is 20 USD/hour. For what it's worth, I have a background in math.
zimit
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Zim vs WARC ?
There are clearly similarities between the two, given that Kiwix put resources into making WARC content available in ZIM archives (i.e. Zimit-style ZIMs, created with the Zimit scraper and warc2zim backend). But as u/IMayBeABitShy said, the ZIM specification focuses on providing a highly compressed container that is readable on-the-fly (i.e. by decompressing only the needed content to show an article), whereas WARC, or rather the compressed version WACZ, is merely a zipped version of the WARC data (request headers and responses). It is also readable on-the-fly, but compression will not be as optimal as the zstandard compression used by modern ZIM archives.
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What's the "best" way to make your own ZIMs (in docker)?
I'm looking at making my own ZIM though not sure the best way to go about it. I've seen zimit on Github and the mwoffliner on Github too.
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How do I zimit listings with slideshows?
Using this tool: https://github.com/openzim/zimit works awesome on most sides.
You would have more chances at getting a technical reply to your technical issue by hitting https://github.com/openzim/zimit/issues I believe
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Prepping for the end of the internet.
Zimit. This tool allows you to convert an existing website into an offline ZIM archive. https://hub.docker.com/r/openzim/zimit
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Reading from the web offline and distraction-free
which worked quite well for most sites, but still very far from a general-purpose solution.
There is also more powerful/general-purpose scraper that generates a ZIM file here: https://github.com/openzim/zimit
It would be really nice to a "common" scraper code base that takes care of scraping (possibly with a real headless browser) and outputs all assets as files + info as JSON. This common code base could then be used by all kinds of programs to package the content as standalone HTML zip files, ePub, ZIM, or even PDF for crazy people like me who like to print things ;)
What are some alternatives?
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.
parser - 📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page
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
instascrape - Powerful and flexible Instagram scraping library for Python, providing easy-to-use and expressive tools for accessing data programmatically
jira_clone - A simplified Jira clone built with React/Babel (Client), and Node/TypeScript (API). Auto formatted with Prettier, tested with Cypress.
nb - CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.