soup-strainer
A reimplementation of the Readability/Decruft algorithm using BeautifulSoup and html5lib (by rcarmo)
dom-distiller
Distills the DOM (by chromium)
| soup-strainer | dom-distiller | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 33 | 594 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 10 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Python | Java | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
soup-strainer
Posts with mentions or reviews of soup-strainer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-30.
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How does Firefox's Reader View work?
I implemented a variation of the Readability algorithm some 9 years ago, in case anyone needs a server-side Python version and is interested in dragging it (kicking and screaming) into the 2020s:
https://github.com/rcarmo/soup-strainer
dom-distiller
Posts with mentions or reviews of dom-distiller.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-30.
- How does Firefox's Reader View work?
- The most underused browser feature
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An app like Pocket to read articles and highlight?
The one ask you have that Literal doesn't yet support is read mode for sources (though it will automatically archive / backup sources). It looks like Chrome's read mode (i.e. the "Show simplified view" toolbar) is open source, so I think I could add support relatively quickly if you're interested.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing soup-strainer and dom-distiller you can also consider the following projects:
unclutter - A modern reader mode and article library for your browser.
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 Safari’s Reader View.