node-read
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SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for scraping page content and an open source alternative
From 2 comments
Thanks for posting that, it is exactly what I need. I want to scrape a diverse selection of web pages for 'the gist' of the main content purely to put into a solr search engine.…
Theodores on HNGood to see an OSS version. How does it handle pagination? From my experience (Pocket, Readability, Readable (now Evernote Clearly), Boilerpipe) that's the big differentiator.…
willlma on HN
Objections
Returns empty body on some pages such as tagesschau.de
From 1 comment
Thank you for this, I just started using node-readability for a project and I'll gladly give this a spin. The second url [0] I tried passing it however unfortunately returned an…
kiliankoe on HN
Does not execute JavaScript, so dynamically rendered pages fail
From 1 comment
Sadly, no dynamic js is being executed.
bndr on HN
Requests
Pagination support
From 2 comments
Good to see an OSS version. How does it handle pagination? From my experience (Pocket, Readability, Readable (now Evernote Clearly), Boilerpipe) that's the big differentiator.…
willlma on HNPagination. Comments. Profit.
earwolf on HN
Screenshots or examples of extracted text
From 1 comment
Very simple request for the developer, you couldn't put up screenshots/examples of text that has been extracted along with a (cached) link so that people can see how it looks…
crashandburn4 on HN
Bookmarklet demo
From 1 comment
would love to see this as a bookmarklet (that hits the user's npm) for demo purposes
bgnm2000 on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Apache Tika?
From 1 comment
How does this compare to Apache Tika?
rpedela on HN
How does it handle JavaScript-rendered content?
From 1 comment
I did not read the source, but have a question: How do you deal with web pages, where the content is dynamically created using javascript/ajax? Do you execute this JS, or just…
kephra on HN
Alternatives named
Readability, Pocket, Evernote Clearly, Boilerpipe
From 1 comment
Good to see an OSS version. How does it handle pagination? From my experience (Pocket, Readability, Readable (now Evernote Clearly), Boilerpipe) that's the big differentiator.…
willlma on HN
Firefox Mobile reader mode
From 1 comment
This reminds me of Firefox Mobile's reader mode - something I find invaluable. Unfortunately they don't seem to have a desktop equivalent, yet.
TD-Linux on HN
Apache Tika
From 1 comment
How does this compare to Apache Tika?
rpedela on HN