unclutter VS dragnet

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.

I’ve had good luck with dragnet in the past for extracting content from html: https://github.com/dragnet-org/dragnet

I am trying to work on a Python tool which makes use of Dragnet as a dependency. After quite a bit of issues I think I am starting to get a better picture that Dragnet will not be very easy to work with. The GitHub page says it was built for Python 2.7 “with recent support for Python 3”. The repo hasn’t been updated in 12 months; many of the other updates are from 3-4 years ago. A normal pip installation is not working. Their Issues page is full from posts from one year ago about various installation problems.

It's really nice that browsers offer reader modes, but they are frustratingly incomplete.

Really, let's switch to a user perspective once and consider - what if I always want reader mode? This is technologically complete impossible and all the solutions are a band-aid.

Firefox and others' attempts rely on the page authors' goodwill. But some pages will always attempt to frustrate reader modes.

Alternative approaches for content extraction use machine learning such as [1], but they of course need to be updated for culture- language- and technology-specific changes.

It's a mess and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

[1] https://github.com/dragnet-org/dragnet

You can take a look into how dragnet preprocess html block ( the Blockifier function ), it's certainly not the best since it collapse the tree structure into one sequential flow but I think is easier to work with once you know how to modify the code for your own need. While the hard way is use lxml and write the parsing yourself, which is also what's happening under dragnet.