ricecooker
url-to-epub
| ricecooker | url-to-epub | |
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| 1 | 1 | |
| 18 | 13 | |
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| 8.2 | 0.0 | |
| 8 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Python | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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ricecooker
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Reading from the web offline and distraction-free
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...
url-to-epub
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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
[2]: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[3]: https://captnemo.in/ebooks/
What are some alternatives?
zimit - Make a ZIM file from any Web site and surf offline!
percollate - A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs.
rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool
parser - 📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page