unclutter VS readability

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'm working with the Mozilla's readability library https://github.com/mozilla/readability to get the "readable" text from articles and now I want to style the extracted text in a readable way.

Do you remember the Firefox Reader View? It's a feature that removes all unnecessary components like buttons, menus, images, and so on, from a website, focusing on the readable content of the page. The library powering this feature is called Readability.js, which is open source.

I wonder if Firefox "reader mode as a utility" might be a viable alternative for Pinboard like "content oriented" archiving?

https://github.com/mozilla/readability

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

Use Mozilla's Readability to extract that sweet, sweet text content from webpages.

Same as above but the ability to grab the entire article text (you can use the Readability library for that: https://github.com/mozilla/readability)

// Original script // https://gist.github.com/kepano/90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987ca3 // Bookmarklet Converter // https://caiorss.github.io/bookmarklet-maker/ // Libraries // https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown // https://github.com/mozilla/readability javascript: Promise.all([import('https://unpkg.com/[email protected]?module'), import('https://unpkg.com/@tehshrike/[email protected]'), ]).then(async ([{ default: Turndown }, { default: Readability }]) => { /* Optional vault name */ const vault = ""; /* Optional folder name such as "Clippings/" */ const folder = "Clippings/"; /* Optional tags */ const tags = ""; function getSelectionHtml() { var html = ""; if (typeof window.getSelection != "undefined") { var sel = window.getSelection(); if (sel.rangeCount) { var container = document.createElement("div"); for (var i = 0, len = sel.rangeCount; i < len; ++i) { container.appendChild(sel.getRangeAt(i).cloneContents()); } html = container.innerHTML; } } else if (typeof document.selection != "undefined") { if (document.selection.type == "Text") { html = document.selection.createRange().htmlText; } } return html; } const selection = getSelectionHtml(); const { title, byline, content } = new Readability(document.cloneNode(true)).parse(); function getFileName(fileName) { var userAgent = window.navigator.userAgent, platform = window.navigator.platform, windowsPlatforms = ['Win32', 'Win64', 'Windows', 'WinCE']; if (windowsPlatforms.indexOf(platform) !== -1) { fileName = fileName.replace(':', '').replace(/[/\\?%*|"<>]/g, '-'); } else { fileName = fileName.replace(':', '').replace(/\//g, '-').replace(/\\/g, '-'); } return fileName; } const fileName = getFileName(title); if (selection) { var markdownify = selection; } else { var markdownify = content; } if (vault) { var vaultName = '&vault=' + encodeURIComponent(`${vault}`); } else { var vaultName = ''; } const markdownBody = new Turndown({ headingStyle: 'atx', hr: '---', bulletListMarker: '-', codeBlockStyle: 'fenced', emDelimiter: '*', }).turndown(markdownify); var date = new Date(); function convertDate(date) { var yyyy = date.getFullYear().toString(); var mm = (date.getMonth()+1).toString(); var dd = date.getDate().toString(); var mmChars = mm.split(''); var ddChars = dd.split(''); return yyyy + '-' + (mmChars[1]?mm:"0"+mmChars[0]) + '-' + (ddChars[1]?dd:"0"+ddChars[0]); } const today = convertDate(date); // This is the output template // It is similar to an Obsidian core template // except to insert a value we use: ${value} instead of {{value}} const fileContent =`--- type: clipping date_added: ${today} aliases: [] tags: [${tags}] --- author:: ${byline.toString().split('\n')[0].trim()} source:: [${title}](${document.URL}) ${markdownBody} `; // This copies your text to the clipboard navigator.clipboard.writeText(fileContent); // This creates a new document in Obsidian containing your clipping // I commented it out as this isn't what you asked for /* document.location.href = "obsidian://new?" + "file=" + encodeURIComponent(folder + fileName) + "&content=" + encodeURIComponent(fileContent) + vaultName; */ })

So first part of the task is to "extract the text from URL", and that is achieved by using descendant of https://github.com/mozilla/readability library which can extract text of any URL.