Epublifier
Productivity
offline reading
SHOW HN2024
290points
43comments
#221of 3,515 in 2024
Top 7%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.
Performance: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
UI for iteratively selecting content elements on arbitrary sites
From 1 comment
Having written my own one of these, the interesting thing about this one is really the UI for iterating on extracting content from an arbitrary site. Having a full GUI for…
kemayo on HN
Works with JavaScript-rendered sites and runs in the browser
From 1 comment
Hey I want to address why this extension is different from other scrapers. This is for ad hoc generation of EPub from websites that don't have scrape well using traditional…
maoserr on HN
Objections
Cloudflare blocking limits scraping of sites like fanfiction.net
From 2 comments
The issue is most likely cloudflare blocking most the best scraping methods. If the site can be pulled down with eg. wget or curl without a bunch of options that you definitely…
t-3 on HNFanfiction.net is trivial... apart from it having Cloudflare bot blocking turned up to aggressive levels. I've not seen an approach that works, other than using headless browsers…
kemayo on HN
Requests
Support for logins and removing popups or cookie notices
From 1 comment
Can it remove popups for newsletters, or subscription, or logins, or cookies' notifications? Can it read pages that requires signing in?
dotancohen on HN
Questions
Does it support fanfiction.net?
From 1 comment
Does it support http://fanfiction.net/ ? I never found an easy solution for that one.
Mkengine on HN
Is it legal?
From 1 comment
Is it legal?
mati365 on HN
Alternatives named
FanFicFare
From 1 comment
Calibre supports a massive list of sites. https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare https://github.com/JimmXinu/FanFicFare/wiki/SupportedSites
KaoruAoiShiho on HN
percollate
From 1 comment
For those interested in a simple to use command line tool that accomplishes the same I've had success with percollate - https://github.com/danburzo/percollate
stuxnet79 on HN
WebToEpub
From 1 comment
Thanks, very useful. There are some tools similar to Epublifier https://epub.press/ https://github.com/dteviot/WebToEpub https://dotepub.com/
chuanliang on HN
epub.press
From 1 comment
Thanks, very useful. There are some tools similar to Epublifier https://epub.press/ https://github.com/dteviot/WebToEpub https://dotepub.com/
chuanliang on HN
Offpunk
From 1 comment
I had that, buf for terminal under Unix and for web pages, Gopher and Gemini. Offpunk: https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/ Instead of Epub, it get catched down into text files…
anthk on HN