unclutter VS Readability4J

no a filter for uBO (I do not think it is possible) but I really like this extension: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter

Other browsers can use the uncluttered extension.

There already is crowdsourcing of broken page reports: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...

And twitter.com is a special case: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/570

I'm working on those, but it's never going to be perfect unfortunately.

Here’s more info: unclutter.lindylearn.io

I'm looking into this: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/661

It all started with a r/chrome post a few months ago, and since then we've added many improvements to our GitHub project.

Hey! This is a reader mode browser extension I built that hides noisy page elements rather than extracting and re-rendering only the page text. The idea is to not make all articles look the same [0], have them still render graphs, and ideally to work in more cases.

There are a few "tricks": patching the site CSSOM to apply simpler mobile styles even at desktop width, detecting the likely main text & removing its non-text siblings, blocklists for classnames that contain words like "sidebar", and testing this on a few hundred popular sites.

I got carried away and also added a dark mode, page outlines, private annotations & inline Hacker News comments.

The last feature works by parsing every top-level HN comment with a quote in it (formatted with > or "") within a few minutes, and anchoring these quotes in the related article HTML. So when you click a link on HN you’ll see the parts people are talking about while reading. [1]

The code is all on GitHub!

[0] Screenshots comparing it to the Firefox reader mode: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/compa...

[1] It's fun to try this on some of the "HN classics" that got 30+ quote comments over the years. The list at hn.lindylearn.io/best shows the number of “annotations” an article has beneath its title.

You can also contribute to the existing extension for this: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter

More examples: unclutter.lindylearn.io The code: github.com/lindylearn/unclutter

Hey! This is a reader mode browser extension I built that hides noisy page elements rather than extracting and re-rendering only their text content. The idea is to not make all articles look the same [0], have them still render graphs, and ideally to work in more cases.

There are a few "tricks": patching the site CSSOM to apply simpler mobile styles even at desktop width, cleaning up parents of DOM text nodes, blocklists for class names that contain words like "sidebar", plus manual CSS patches for popular sites.

I got carried away and also added a dark mode, page outlines, privates notes & inline Hacker News comments. [1]

The last feature works by parsing every top-level HN comment with a quote in it (formatted with > or "") within a few minutes, and anchoring these quotes in the story article HTML. So when you open a link you'll directly see the parts people are talking about here. [2]

The extension code is all on GitHub: github.com/lindylearn/unclutter

[0] Unclutter vs the Firefox reader mode: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/compa...

[1] The linked website show some examples for these.

[2] It's also fun to try this on some of the "HN classics" that got 30+ quote comments over the years. The list at hn.lindylearn.io/best shows the number of "annotations" a link has beneath its title.

Depending upon the type of content, one might want to look into using the Readability (Browder's reader view) to parse the webpage. It will give you all the useful info without the junk. Then you can put it in the DB as needed.

https://github.com/mozilla/readability

Btw, readability, is also available in few other languages like Kotlin:

https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

My Hacker News client HACK for iOS and Android has a reader mode ability browser. While on iOS, I was able to use the reader mode feature provided by SFSafariViewController, that wasn't available on android.

So I had to read a ton about this. I ended up using a heavily modified Kotlin version of Readability:

https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1464477788

Not sure about OP but I just implemented this in my Hacker News android client (thanks for the idea OP).

This is how I implemented it. I had already achieved article to "reader mode" by heavily customizing the Kotlin port of Mozilla‘s Readability:

https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

Then I pass the text via Android's TextToSpeech library and it works very well:

    fun trySpeaking(str:String){