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So I looked into all of these some time ago for an app that I use myself. The Safari fork of Readability is the best client implementation, while the best serve
by nikcub 15y ago
So I looked into all of these some time ago for an app that I use myself. The Safari fork of Readability is the best client implementation, while the best server-side implementation (by a mile) is Diffbot.
Out of the 50 sources I had (regular RSS updates, etc.) InstaPaper failed on far too many, either stripping important content or pictures and captions. Readability was only a bit better
I glued together an app that will pull in RSS, send each URL to diffbot, and then collate the output into a reader that I use. Never thought of releasing it as an app, I just use it myself.
- tszming 15y agoReadability's code is a little bit old (2009), but seems no other better (opensource) alternatives... And thanks for suggesting Diffbot, will try later.
- albertogh 15y agoC implementation and Python bindings, opensourced one hour ago https://github.com/fiam/readable https://github.com/fiam/readable
- abrowne 15y agoMaybe the name is generic enough, but I'm wondering if you're aware of Readable[1]. [1]: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/ http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
- admp 15y agoThanks for introducing me to Diffbot. From your comment I expected it to be an open source implementation, but a high-quality SaaS with 50,000 API calls/mo on the free plan is still pretty damn good.