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Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes

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Post by chch »

I'd been mulling over the same concept for quite a while, as a sort of an intelligent update to IE5 for Mac's Subscription manager[1]. It was a very useful tool in my toolbox, and I mourned losing it as that browser decayed.

The main issue with the Subscriptions was that they were global, and would not inform you what changed, just that there were changes. With the increased dynamicness of the web since good ol' Y2K (especially with ads), this model is much less feasible, whereas a DOM-based model is more robust, and allows further automatic data processing.

I never got past small prototypes, so I look forward to Sieve's release since it is basically someone doing my work for me! :)

[1] http://www.macoptions.com/tips/images/iesub2.gif

Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes

#12

Post by tekacs »

ajitk wrote: post #4
elehack wrote: post #2

Cool concept, but name collision: Sieve has been the name of a server-side mail filtering language for quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_langua...

Glad that you liked the concept. Wasn't aware of the unfortunate name collision. I am open to suggestions. Thanks!

DiffWeb?

Detect? (amusingly not taken within tech, seemingly)

Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes

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Post by jeremyswank »

ajitk wrote: post #4
elehack wrote: post #2

Cool concept, but name collision: Sieve has been the name of a server-side mail filtering language for quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_langua...

Glad that you liked the concept. Wasn't aware of the unfortunate name collision. I am open to suggestions. Thanks!

if sifter is out, then something like sift could be winnow or winnower. might be a bit obscure for non-agrarians, but it has 'win' in it!

Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes

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Post by ajitk »

chch wrote: post #11

I'd been mulling over the same concept for quite a while, as a sort of an intelligent update to IE5 for Mac's Subscription manager[1]. It was a very useful tool in my toolbox, and I mourned losing it as that browser decayed. The main issue with the Subscriptions was that they were global, and would not inform you what changed, just that there were changes. With the increased dynamicness of the web since good ol' Y2K…

Ah IE5! It has been a very long wait. :) We are hard at work to launch Sieve. Optimistically we should be ready in a couple of months.

Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes

#16

Post by ajitk »

smickie wrote: post #14

Can I ask what sort of libraries you're using for the canvas-in-page-browser-selector? Is it server or client side? The technology here is spectacular. Great job!

Thanks for your kind words. The stack is a mix of both. Browser runs on the server and sends updates to the client via websocket. Then it is painted on the client. On the client-side a part of noVNC js library is used to capture input and is sent to the browser running on the server.

Re: Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes

#18

Post by opminion »

ajitk wrote: post #3

Hello HN! I am excited to show Sieve. Its in alpha state and under active development. Would appreciate your feedback. Checkout Visual Selector used to let user filter content from a webpage.

If what you are doing is essentially a diff for news, then you might be onto something very interesting.

The way news are consumed is currently tiered by the temporal interval which they cover: breaking news, daily news, weekly, monthly, annual summaries. A diff for news can help process the different tiers from a single reader, without the "breaking news" tier taking over.

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