web-clipper VS Readability4J

i was using raindrop for a while as well actually, just for bookmarking regular stuff, but doing incremental imports using that is an option i suppose

i just did a bit more research on web clippers and found this one that supports of few different services so it might be trivial enough to add support for grist. not that i have the ability to do that at the moment but it might be a fun challenge at some point!

https://github.com/webclipper/web-clipper

Notion's Web Clipper is not perfect. It clips and works most of the time. However, at times it does not. Fortunately, there is Web Clipper! It feels as if a reverse-engineered version of Evernote's Web Clipper. I use both the official and this. It all depends on the site that you are trying to clip. Hence, not an issue at the end of the day.

I think that is the list of sites/services that can store the saved content. It more or less corresponds to these modules: https://github.com/webclipper/web-clipper/tree/master/src/co...

For third party clipper, I installed this one before: https://github.com/webclipper/web-clipper, it looks promising, but it could not log into my OneNote account, then I give it up.

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){