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Ask HN: How does outline.com work?
I'm pretty amazed that I can get around a paywall just by using https://outline.com/www.[my url] . I'm sure there's nothing too crazy going on under the hood, but does anyone exactly how it works?
- brad0 8y agoJust took a look at this, here's my guess. - Pretend they're a crawler such as Google and pull down the HTML, potentially executing javascript - Once it's pulled down, clean it up using open source code such as readability https://github.com/mozilla/readability https://github.com/mozilla/readability - Store that result as a document in a nosql database Once they have pulled the article down once they don't need to get it again.