SHshiomiru·Feb 25, 2024
See also the C port here: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview/
It works well with text-mode browsers like w3m.
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rdrview
Firefox Reader View as a command line tool
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10 sourcesThey both parse untrusted content content without any sandboxing.
I typically send content through rdrview[0] before piping through w3m-sandbox[1], which should be pretty safe. I also only browse one site per w3m instance.
[0]: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/bwrap-scripts/tree/trunk/item/w3m-...
In W3M RocksI do a lot of this work[3] (web to documents) and it's interesting to see other approaches. The medium image problem is something I've faced as well, but never got around to fixing. I'm planning to get a Remarkable soon, so will definitely be trying this out.
My personal solution has been https://github.com/captn3m0/url-to-epub/ (Node/readability), which I've tested against the entirety of Tor's original fiction collection[0] where it performs well enough (I'm biased). Another tool that does this beautifully well is percollate[1], but it doesn't give enough control of the metadata to the user - something I really care about.
I've also started to use rdrview[2], which is a C-port of the current Firefox implementation of "reader view". It is very unix-y, so it is easy to pipe content to it (I usually run it through tidy first). Quite helpfu
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l in building web-archiving or web-to-pdf or web-to-kindle pipelines easily.
[0]: https://www.tor.com/category/all-fiction/original-fiction/
[1]: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate
[2]: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[3]: https://captnemo.in/ebooks/
Two projects that do this with nearly identical output:
- https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
- https://github.com/go-shiori/go-readability
Pipe the filtered HTML output into your favorite textual web browser for an ideal reading experience.
In Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussionsSEEKING WORK | Argentina | Remote
Email: hn.eafer@gmail.com
I'm a programmer, most familiar with C on Linux and Win32. I'll be happy to start a project from scratch, or to help support any old codebase. For a sample of my work please see rdrview [1], a small command line tool that found some success here on Hacker News; or [2], a naive filesystem implementation I've been working on.
My current rate is 20 USD/hour. For what it's worth, I have a background in math.
[1] https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[2] https://github.com/linux-apfs
In Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2021)Oh, hello there again! It's always good to see people testing their site on non-mainstream user-agents.
Some other terminal user-agents to try:
rdrview, go-readability: these are CLI utilities that use Mozilla's Readability algorithm to send HTML of just the article to stdout. Pipe that into w3m/lynx/links to read articles in the terminal. Testing in these ensures that your website will work in Firefox's Reader Mode. I also like to diff my website's HTML against the HTML output of these tools, just to see how much extraneous HTML I have.
Mozilla's Readability is written in JS; these tools are written in C and Go, respectively. With the exception of a few whitespace characters, their output of both seems to be identical.
=> https://github.com/eafer/rdrview rdrview
=> https://github.com/go-shiori/go-readability go-readability
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line-mode browser that supports JavaScript via Duktape. Originally written for blind users, it's great for sighted users as well.
=> https://edbrowse.org/ edbrowse
If you want to go the extra mile and ensure that your website works with the most basic HTML parsers, try sending it through an HTML-to-Markdown converter that doesn't include inline html in the Markdown output. I test with pandoc's strict markdown output and make sure the resulting markdown is readable:
pandoc -f html -t markdown_strict https://example.com
None of this is a replacement for real a11y testing; most a11y technology leverages mainstream browsers (Chromium, FF, Safari, et cetera).
SEEKING WORK | Argentina | Remote
Email: hn.eafer@gmail.com
I'm a programmer, most familiar with C on Linux (both userland and the kernel) and Win32. I'll be happy to start a project from scratch, or to help support any old codebase. For a sample of my work please see rdrview [1], a small command line tool that found some success here on Hacker News; or [2], a naive filesystem implementation I've been working on.
My rate is 20 USD/hour, and I don't expect to be paid until I have something to deliver. For what it's worth, I have a background in math.
[1] https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[2] https://github.com/linux-apfs
In Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2020)SEEKING WORK | Argentina | Remote
Email: hn.eafer@gmail.com
I'm a programmer, most familiar with C on Linux (both userland and the kernel) and Win32. I'll be happy to start a project from scratch, or to help support any old codebase. For a sample of my work please see rdrview [1], a small command line tool that found some success here on Hacker News; or [2], a naive filesystem implementation I've been working on.
My usual rate is 15 USD/hour, and I don't expect to be paid until I have something to deliver. For what it's worth, I have a background in math.
[1] https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[2] https://github.com/linux-apfs
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