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Disable javascript and the entire article loads on the economist.
by flerchin 5y ago
Disable javascript and the entire article loads on the economist.
- Scoundreller 5y agoLynx is the best reader for the economist.
- rahimnathwani 5y agoBack in 2016, The Economist used to block access from lynx. You'd get an error like this (unless you spoofed the user agent to be something other than lynx): Error 403 You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake. You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake. Guru Meditation: XID: 84740260 __________________________________________________________________ Varnish cache server
- Scoundreller 5y agoTbh, I was probably running some clone like bobcat.
- titanomachy 5y agoI don't love reading long articles in fixed-width fonts.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThen pipeline to a PS/PDF generator. For most modern Web publishing, this is mostly a matter of finding and extracting the <article> block, as well as metadata (title, byline, dateline). html-xml-tools is quite useful for this. I'd created a WaPo extractor that reduced pagesize by about 95%, stripped the nags and paywalls, etc. Endpoint was HTML, but that could just as easily have generated PDF or ePub if I'd wanted.
- titanomachy 5y agoI applaud people who take advantage of the fact that the internet is still largely machine-readable and hackable. I am much lazier, but I use "reader mode" to similar effect.
- network2592 5y agoW3M is fine too.
- bduerst 5y agoOutline works well too: https://outline.com/jtdYRj https://outline.com/jtdYRj