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Re: Show HN: txtify.it – Easily convert web articles to plain text

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Post by k1m »

thrownaway954 wrote: post #20

The example should rotate between what people have previously converted. Right now it is static.

That would bother people. Say you convert something that's private or not public yet. Not sure you'd want the next person to see it. I don't like it when sites do it.

Re: Show HN: txtify.it – Easily convert web articles to plain text

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Post by k1m »

masukomi wrote: post #22

Am i right in thinking the source code will not be available for this?

Any particular aspect of the code you're interested in?

The article detection, extraction and conversion happens with our Full-Text RSS product which we sell (see link for demo in another comment). So the code here is mostly sending a HTTP request to that and asking for plain text output. The HTML to text conversion in Full-Text RSS uses the Html2Text library found here https://github.com/mtibben/html2text

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Post by RunningRabbit »

k1m wrote: post #11
RunningRabbit wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is your privacy policy?

We'll have one up soon. But essentially no user accounts, and no logging on our servers for this service. Requested articles are cached for a few hours then deleted.

I count this as a proper privacy statement already :)
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