content-parser
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web content extraction api
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Commenters like the stripped-down web reading idea
From 1 comment
I wrote something similar so I could save recipes and web pages for reading offline. And if you save in html, it will inline images, so you can have a single file. In markdown,…
bprew on HN
Objections
Readability misses content on some pages, so it is finicky
From 1 comment
I wrote something similar so I could save recipes and web pages for reading offline. And if you save in html, it will inline images, so you can have a single file. In markdown,…
bprew on HN
Free web clippers and archive sites already do this
From 1 comment
I wrote something similar so I could save recipes and web pages for reading offline. And if you save in html, it will inline images, so you can have a single file. In markdown,…
bprew on HN
Per-page cost claim seems high for serverless compute
From 1 comment
Can you expand on this statement "It costs me only several cents to parse an entire page"? That sounds like quite a lot to me. We're talking _maybe_ a few seconds of compute time…
masukomi on HN
Requests
Option to enable or disable JavaScript
From 1 comment
I maintain something similar today, and I'm guessing that the OP uses some combination of the following libraries too (?): - Readability (https://github.com/mozilla/readability)…
saltymimir on HN
Front matter metadata option
From 1 comment
I maintain something similar today, and I'm guessing that the OP uses some combination of the following libraries too (?): - Readability (https://github.com/mozilla/readability)…
saltymimir on HN
Bypass paywalls by changing user agent or redirecting to archive
From 2 comments
I maintain something similar today, and I'm guessing that the OP uses some combination of the following libraries too (?): - Readability (https://github.com/mozilla/readability)…
saltymimir on HNCould you automate browsing to an archive link instead when a link runs to a common paywalled site?
neodymiumphish on HN
Questions
How is paywall bypassing done, such as by archive.today
From 1 comment
Archive.today is exceptional at bypassing paywalls (any idea how?) This doesn't seem to work on Bloomberg articles for example.
akrymski on HN
How much does it cost to parse a page
From 1 comment
Can you expand on this statement "It costs me only several cents to parse an entire page"? That sounds like quite a lot to me. We're talking _maybe_ a few seconds of compute time…
masukomi on HN
Alternatives named
Clippy (open source recipe and web page saver)
From 1 comment
I wrote something similar so I could save recipes and web pages for reading offline. And if you save in html, it will inline images, so you can have a single file. In markdown,…
bprew on HN
Archive.today
From 1 comment
Archive.today is exceptional at bypassing paywalls (any idea how?) This doesn't seem to work on Bloomberg articles for example.
akrymski on HN
Evernote web clipper
From 1 comment
I wrote something similar so I could save recipes and web pages for reading offline. And if you save in html, it will inline images, so you can have a single file. In markdown,…
bprew on HN