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Re: Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

#11

This is awesome. I kind of want a browser extension that does this to every page I read and saves them somewhere.

My choice (manual): Markdown clipper

https://github.com/deathau/markdown-clipper

I guess there are dozens of alternative extensions available out there …

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

#12

One of the cases when AI not needed. There is very good working algorithm to extract content from the pages, one of implementations: https://github.com/buriy/python-readability

Some years ago I compared those boilerplate removal tools and I remember that jusText was giving me the best results out of the box (tried readability and few other libraries too). I wonder what is the state of the art today?

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

#15

One of the cases when AI not needed. There is very good working algorithm to extract content from the pages, one of implementations: https://github.com/buriy/python-readability

How do you achieve the same things without AI here using that tool?

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

#16
I also made one like this a while back, you can extract to markdown, html, text or PDF. I found pages that are the straight tool are very hard to SEO-position since there's not a lot of text/content on the page, even if the tool could be very useful. Feedback welcome:

https://content-parser.com/

These are all "wrappers around readability" AFAIK (including mine), which is the Mozilla project to make sites look clean and I use often.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

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post #15

One of the cases when AI not needed. There is very good working algorithm to extract content from the pages, one of implementations: https://github.com/buriy/python-readability

How do you achieve the same things without AI here using that tool?

"How do you do it without AI" is a question I (sadly) expect to see more often.
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