Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle'

uncle_moustache@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They are similar and use some of the same underlying technology powered by the readability library, but newswaffle gives more options on how to render the article (article mode, link mode, raw mode), it isolates images and gives them their own external url link you can click on, it tells you exactly how much cruft it saved from original webpage (something about seeing 99.x% lighter makes my brain tingle good chemicals). It works well with article indexes. Hope these examples help.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s really good, but it suffers from having a “good enough” competitor built in. You’re already using an ad block that prevents loading ads, trackers and other nasties. Then you click Reader mode to get to a result that works well enough most of the time. A lot more convenient than handling finding a website to paste a link into, let alone self hosting a tool.

    What this project needs is a browser extension to make it more convenient.

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