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I’ve frequently needed to access a plain text version of a site in a bash script or from the command line. For this, I use the command w3m -dump <url> whi
by z1mm32m4n 8y ago
I’ve frequently needed to access a plain text version of a site in a bash script or from the command line. For this, I use the command
w3m -dump <url>
which dumps the website’s text content to stdout.
- k1m 8y agoOne of the things we do with txtify.it is try to find the content block in the HTML first, then convert only that from HTML to plain text. So in situations where the input URL is a news article or blog post, the output should be cleaner.
- RunningRabbit 8y agoWhere is your privacy policy?
- k1m 8y agoWe'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.
- RunningRabbit 8y agoI count this as a proper privacy statement already :)