7 ms·
Instapaper like article extractor demo now online
- StavrosK 15y agoHow is this different from the myriad of other text extraction services, APIs and libraries out there?
- beagledude 15y ago1. it's open sourced 2. it's embeddable 3. it extracts images 4. it's one of the most accurate (http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/06/head-to-head-comparison-of-tex.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/06/head-to-head-compar...) 5. it's named after the best top gun character
- StavrosK 15y agoI'm sold, then, thanks!
- HardyLeung 15y agoI agree. It works quite well! If it can be formatted to look like Readability's default (which is really quite plesant to read) it would be nice.
- chopsueyar 15y agoNice work!
- chrismealy 15y agoEverything I try gives a 404.
- ltamake 15y agoCool! I really like how accurate it is; works with almost every site I try. :)
- metaprinter 15y agoit didn't extract images for the sites i tried. all wordpress blogs. EDIT: i just realized why. those blogs are pulling images from flickr.
- petercooper 15y agoNice! I worked on something similar a year ago but for the Ruby world. If you're on a Unix with Ruby installed (e.g. OS X), you can mostly repeat the linked demo like so: gem install pismo pismo http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/twitter-ios/ title lede author datetime body And then enjoy the output. No image pick out, but it's the first IMG tag in the 'html_body'.. just never got around to implementing it as I didn't need that feature. The downside is I haven't worked on it for months and it's in sore need of improvements. For its current in-production use though, it's proving sufficient and a reasonable option for Rubyists. More info at https://github.com/peterc/pismo https://github.com/peterc/pismo Not knocking Jim's work on Plush, btw, he's actively working on it so if Java works out for you, stick to him! :)
- shazow 15y agoOne thing I've always wanted is something to extract multi-page forum threads and render them in a normalized readable way. For example, Reddit comment threads like IAMAs. Anyone know of a service or library that does that?
- btucker 15y agoI actually started playing with the concept one weekend for IAmAs specifically. I was trying to do it all client-side and the issue I was running up against was reddit's jsonp responses get VERY slow on large threads.