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I know there was just a discussion yesterday on how amp is awful but it still is useful, e.g., to read WSJ articles. curl -o 1.htm https://www.wsj.com/amp/a

by 10165 9y ago

I know there was just a discussion yesterday on how amp is awful but it still is useful, e.g., to read WSJ articles. curl -o 1.htm https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-quants-run-wall-street-now-1495389108 sed -n '/./{/<title/,/<\/title/p;/<p>/,/<\/p>/p;}' 1.htm > 2.htm FWIW, 2.htm has no amp elements, no Javascript, no images, no ads, no externally sourced resources and therefore no tracking. Add links to non-essential images (cf. auto-loaded by browser). With available captions. sed -n ' /./{/div class=.image/,/<\/div/!d;s/ *//;} /src=/{s///;s/\"//g;s/.*/<a Href=&>&<\/a><br>/;} /alt=/{s///;s/[\">]//g;/./s/.*/<P>above: &<\/p>/;} /Href=/p;/<P>/p' 1.htm >> 2.htm

PhantomGremlin 9y ago
This is excellent. Most times I'm willing to live with just the text. The article had some pictures and graphs (see archive.li someone else posted). They were nice but they weren't essential.
themodelplumber 9y ago
How is this different from using 'links' or 'w3m'?
- 10165 9y ago
  Using links is both better and easier. amp html pages look great in links.
  - taeric 9y ago
    This made me wonder if it would render well in emacs using eww. Surprisingly well rendered, actually. Odd that it doesn't have any pictures. But easy to read.
duckmuck 9y ago
Can you explain to me what I am looking at here? (curl -o 1.htm... >2.htm)? And how I can use it to view an AMP page?
- zitterbewegung 9y ago
  It saves the page after the filtering that is done in the command and you can open the 2.htm to view the page.
- nl 9y ago
  It's two separate lines. The first line uses curl to download the AMP file to 1.htm The second line use sed to replace some elements in the HTML and writes it out to 2.htm
guiambros 9y ago
This is excellent, particularly for reading with lynx :)
nathan_f77 9y ago
Thanks very much for this script, it was really refreshing to read such a minimal webpage. I added some bare-minimum CSS to make it a little nicer to read. Full command (with in-place sed): curl -o article.htm https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-quants-run-wall-street-now-1495389108 sed -n '/./{/<title/,/<\/title/p;/<p>/,/<\/p>/p;}' -i article.htm echo "<style>html { text-align: center; padding: 36px; } body { max-width: 600px; text-align: left; margin: auto; }</style>" >> article.htm

by 10165 9y ago

PhantomGremlin 9y ago

This is excellent. Most times I'm willing to live with just the text. The article had some pictures and graphs (see archive.li someone else posted). They were nice but they weren't essential.

themodelplumber 9y ago

How is this different from using 'links' or 'w3m'?

10165 9y ago
Using links is both better and easier. amp html pages look great in links.
- taeric 9y ago
  This made me wonder if it would render well in emacs using eww. Surprisingly well rendered, actually. Odd that it doesn't have any pictures. But easy to read.

duckmuck 9y ago

Can you explain to me what I am looking at here? (curl -o 1.htm... >2.htm)? And how I can use it to view an AMP page?

zitterbewegung 9y ago
It saves the page after the filtering that is done in the command and you can open the 2.htm to view the page.
nl 9y ago
It's two separate lines. The first line uses curl to download the AMP file to 1.htm The second line use sed to replace some elements in the HTML and writes it out to 2.htm

guiambros 9y ago

This is excellent, particularly for reading with lynx :)

nathan_f77 9y ago

Thanks very much for this script, it was really refreshing to read such a minimal webpage. I added some bare-minimum CSS to make it a little nicer to read. Full command (with in-place sed): curl -o article.htm https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/the-quants-run-wall-street-now-1495389108 sed -n '/./{/<title/,/<\/title/p;/<p>/,/<\/p>/p;}' -i article.htm echo "<style>html { text-align: center; padding: 36px; } body { max-width: 600px; text-align: left; margin: auto; }</style>" >> article.htm