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Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

#11

Post by masukomi » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 7:28 PM UTC

what is different about this than the original arc90 readability algorithm with an URL field added to kick off the processing?

Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

#12

Post by cliveowen » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 7:31 PM UTC

http://evernote.com/clearly/ I've been using this for years, now I can't read an article without it.

Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

#13

Post by praveenster » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 7:47 PM UTC

Care to share the details of the html parser? is it one of arc90/goose/boilerpipe/fivefilters or a new engine?

Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

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Post by glittershark » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 7:51 PM UTC

Pentadactyl command to do this with the currently open page:

    :command! justread execute 'open justread.mpgarate.com/read?url=' + buffer.URL

Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

#15

Post by huskyr » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 8:08 PM UTC

What's the difference between this and something like Instapaper or the iReader plugin ([1])?

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ireader/ppelffpjgk...

Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

#16

Post by mpgarate » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 8:11 PM UTC

masukomi wrote: post #11

what is different about this than the original arc90 readability algorithm with an URL field added to kick off the processing?

This project directly uses the Readability api.

I created this as a more simple interface than Readability offers, primarily for my own personal use as a bookmarklet.

Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

#17

Post by scoot » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 8:17 PM UTC

cdbattags wrote: post #3

package it with http://squirt.io/ and suddenly we can read everything

I've added bookmarklets for both, and you can Clean (which sorts out multi-page articles, sidebars etc.) then Squirt to speed-read the resulting article. They really do go hand-in-hand.

Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

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Post by cag_ii » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 8:41 PM UTC

praveenster wrote: post #13

Care to share the details of the html parser? is it one of arc90/goose/boilerpipe/fivefilters or a new engine?

> Built by mpgarate with the Readability API.

Is noted in the footer.

Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

#19

Post by nazgul » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 9:01 PM UTC

You're not concerned about the copyright issues related to this?

Re: Show HN: Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read

#20

Post by grimtrigger » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 9:08 PM UTC

topherjaynes wrote: post #6

To show of the functionality for first time page landers you should pre-populate with a popular article url. I had to open a new tab and find an article to test. I almost didn't come back. Almost, but glad I did!

I see website after website make this mistake. How is this not painfully obvious?