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This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that scraped the comments for each article or (even better) scraped the article itself (instapaper styl

by bstar77 14y ago

This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that scraped the comments for each article or (even better) scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate getting distracted on websites. If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself.

gcr 14y ago
Links comes pretty close. Here's some of the output of this comments page: $ links -dump 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992951' [IMG] Hacker Newsnew | comments | ask | jobs | submit login [IMG] Show HN: HN In Your Terminal (github.com) 37 points by ciaranarcher 5 hours ago | 14 comments _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ [ add comment ] [IMG] bstar77 1 hour ago | link This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that scraped the comments for each article or (even better) scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate getting distracted on websites. If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself. reply [IMG] slajax 1 hour ago | link I would use this but I also think it needs to implement at very least the comments page view. Otherwise you might as well just stick to the browser. There are a lot of times I'll read comments before I read an article, so I could still find it useful even if you didn't scrape the entire article to it's own view but allowed me to browse the comments. reply .... Lists | RSS | Bookmarklet | Guidelines | FAQ | DMCA | News News | Feature Requests | Y Combinator | Apply | Library Search: __________________
- bstar77 14y ago
  very nice, then it's definitely possible to just have this gem use a links dump to display the comment content. I think links by itself is a bit clumsy for everyday use.
NathanKP 14y ago
If it just had a version of Lynx embedded it could show the website fairly well unless it was a heavily scripted site that loads its content for each page via JavaScript.

by bstar77 14y ago

gcr 14y ago

Links comes pretty close. Here's some of the output of this comments page: $ links -dump 'http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992951' [IMG] Hacker Newsnew | comments | ask | jobs | submit login [IMG] Show HN: HN In Your Terminal (github.com) 37 points by ciaranarcher 5 hours ago | 14 comments _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ [ add comment ] [IMG] bstar77 1 hour ago | link This would be infinitely more useful if there was a view that scraped the comments for each article or (even better) scraped the article itself (instapaper style). I would love to peruse hacker news this way in-between working as I hate getting distracted on websites. If I get some free time I might look into adding that myself. reply [IMG] slajax 1 hour ago | link I would use this but I also think it needs to implement at very least the comments page view. Otherwise you might as well just stick to the browser. There are a lot of times I'll read comments before I read an article, so I could still find it useful even if you didn't scrape the entire article to it's own view but allowed me to browse the comments. reply .... Lists | RSS | Bookmarklet | Guidelines | FAQ | DMCA | News News | Feature Requests | Y Combinator | Apply | Library Search: __________________

bstar77 14y ago
very nice, then it's definitely possible to just have this gem use a links dump to display the comment content. I think links by itself is a bit clumsy for everyday use.

NathanKP 14y ago

If it just had a version of Lynx embedded it could show the website fairly well unless it was a heavily scripted site that loads its content for each page via JavaScript.