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Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#11
1) the zipped download has always the same name, becomes quickly confusing if you're grabbing several pages. Maybe adding a timestamp or, better, a title snippet could help.

2) found html tags and incorrect whitespace when exporting to TXT this page: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

I want to try this tool with pages that Instapaper fails to grab.

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#13
post #9

I can't put down a person for effort, but this tool doesn't work at all. Over half the pages I tried are missing content entirely.

It does seem to omit elements quite curiously. Just try using this submission as an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403661

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#14

I tried it on this webpage : https://www.rt.com/news/357833-france-coca-cola-cocaine/ Not bad but the title of the article is missing. The tweet is missing too but I can't decide if it's a good or a bad thing. There should be options to remove pictures too I think. Honestly I'd be interested by a standalone product like this. I don't like the fact that you know everything I store.

The title of the article is the name of document, we understand that this is misleading so we can add it at the top of the document. For the Tweet, this is up for discussion for the moment our parser remove Media Card, we could add an option to enable or disable Media Card. For the picture this is an improvement we could do easily. Actually we do not know what document you generate, but I understand the need for end…

Sorry I forgot to mention : I generated a PDF.

Later I tried a text export of the same page, some HTML remains ( elements).

Using the title of the page to name the zip would be nice too.

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#15
post #6

Interestingly, the webpage itself cannot be turned into a document. >We couldn't find any text for creating the document. Please send us the problematic link : https://documentcyborg.com/ via our contactus form. This was the first page I thought to try it on, so you might want to consider adding more text to your landing page so that it will work.

I did the same thing, this is definitely worth looking into.

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#16
post #9

I can't put down a person for effort, but this tool doesn't work at all. Over half the pages I tried are missing content entirely.

If can please send us just the domain name that failed at: hn at documentcyborg.com , we will fix all the problem that you encountered on theses domain.

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#17
That hostname is very difficult to read. I kept squinting and though it was "Documentcy Borg". If you're going to put together something like you need a shorter, catchier name.

Here's a freebie name that's (as of writing this) unregistered: page2doc.com

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#18
post #9

I can't put down a person for effort, but this tool doesn't work at all. Over half the pages I tried are missing content entirely.

It does seem to omit elements quite curiously. Just try using this submission as an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403661

Actually you are right this is correctly rendered in the pdf,doc,odt,epub export but not in the rtf and txt. We are working on fix.

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#19

1) the zipped download has always the same name, becomes quickly confusing if you're grabbing several pages. Maybe adding a timestamp or, better, a title snippet could help. 2) found html tags and incorrect whitespace when exporting to TXT this page: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning I want to try this tool with pages that Instapaper fails to grab.

1) Understood, for the moment we have not yet decied which way we go but for sure we will stop giving only [documentcyborg.com].zip file 2) We found some bug in the export to rtf and txt (its getting fix), the other export are working correctly.

For the Instataper pages that fail if you could send us some domain name you wish : hn at documentcyborg.com and we will test the parser against it to make sure it works.

Re: Show HN: Transform any web page into a document

#20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The title of the article is the name of document, we understand that this is misleading so we can add it at the top of the document. For the Tweet, this is up for discussion for the moment our parser remove Media Card, we could add an option to enable or disable Media Card. For the picture this is an improvement we could do easily. Actually we do not know what document you generate, but I understand the need for end…

Sorry I forgot to mention : I generated a PDF. Later I tried a text export of the same page, some HTML remains ( elements). Using the title of the page to name the zip would be nice too.

We found some bug in the rtf and txt export, we are fixing them right now. We are going to change the way we serve the file either as user mixedbit suggested it or other that work for sure cross browser and trough proxy and so on. Thanks for the report.
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