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After seeing the CNN one and now this, it makes me want to create a generalized service to turn any site into TXT format with the html2text [0] golang package.

• astronautjones 9y ago
  here's hoping!
• evantahler 9y ago
  I bet you can use one of the classic text “browsers”, like Lynx, and serve up that output... ...Runs to download Lynx and rediscover the past!
  • l1n 9y ago
    elinks -dump is my poison of choice :)
• KGIII 9y ago
  On a tablet, I sometimes make use of this site: https://www.textise.net/ https://www.textise.net/ It comes in pretty handy sometimes. I'm absolutely not affiliated, just a happy user.
  • fifty_something 9y ago
    Thank you for that. A very useful website.
• rmrfrmrf 9y ago
  Most browsers already have a “reader view”.
• jaytaylor 9y ago
  Here is the first pass; I still want to make it fancier so that links are clickable, but for a quick first stab I'm pleasantly surprised with the output quality: http://txt.gigawatt.io/ http://txt.gigawatt.io/ <-- add URL here at the end (GET parameters not yet supported) Examples: http://txt.gigawatt.io/jaytaylor.com http://txt.gigawatt.io/jaytaylor.com http://txt.gigawatt.io/http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/26/politics/senate-intelligence-committee-russia-facebook-ads/index.html http://txt.gigawatt.io/http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/26/politic... Source code: https://github.com/jaytaylor/txt-web https://github.com/jaytaylor/txt-web
  • xena 9y ago
    I get mojibake when looking at my personal site: http://txt.gigawatt.io/christine.website/blog/voiding-the-interview-2017-04-16 http://txt.gigawatt.io/christine.website/blog/voiding-the-in...
    • jaytaylor 9y ago
      Yes, that'll be fixed when I move to a text-based HTML output instead of raw plaintext. Thanks for the feedback and for trying it out!