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by k1m 8y ago
Have you got a URL I can try? This one worked: https://txtify.it/www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economi...
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by k1m 8y ago
We'll have one up soon. But essentially no user accounts, and no logging on our servers for this service. Requested articles are cached for a few hours then deleted.
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by k1m 8y ago
One of the things we do with txtify.it is try to find the content block in the HTML first, then convert only that from HTML to plain text. So in situations where the input URL is a news article or blog post, the output should be cleaner.
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by k1m 8y ago
Thanks! :) The output is literally plain text (Content-Type: text/plain). But, I realised it's possible to send a stylesheet in the HTTP header. Chrome seems to ignore it, but Firefox uses it: Link: <https://txtif
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by k1m 8y ago
Thanks! I'll try to add that in the next update.
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by k1m 8y ago
Thanks! :) No big goals with this. Thought it'd be a useful tool, especially considering how big and bloated web sites are getting these days. So we're going to try to keep it around as it is. It's a simple wrapper around our
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Show HN: txtify.it – Easily convert web articles to plain text(txtify.it)
51 points by k1m 8y ago|23 comments
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by k1m 9y ago
I work on a service that tries to generate new full-text feeds from these partial ones. You can try it out at http://fivefilters.org/content-only/
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by k1m 9y ago
Happen to have any links on Seymour Hersh being "made to look foolish" with his article? Robert Fisk, also a highly respected journalist, was the first Western journalist to visit Douma after the recent bombing. His report casts d
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by k1m 9y ago
Good to be sceptical of Bellingcat. Information on funding: https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/879036821954539520 Pulitzer prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh responded to attacks by Bellingcat here: ht
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by k1m 9y ago
We have a service that can convert partial feeds to full-text for a lot of sites. If you're curious, you can try it here http://fivefilters.org/content-only/ and code for a slightly older version here https:&#x2F
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by k1m 9y ago
Thanks, we'll have to look into that.
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by k1m 9y ago
Good point, we'll add original article URL at the bottom. As for the advantages, at the moment FireFox's built-in reader view doesn't produce the kind of output we do. If you're curious, we created a video of the kind of
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by k1m 9y ago
Thank you for the kind words. We haven't really thought much about running this kind of thing as a proxy service, or what it would be like to implement it. Our tools are really intended for web articles, so they will fail on lots of ot
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by k1m 9y ago
We already produce ePub and Kindle mobipocket files in our Push to Kindle service. You can try it out here http://fivefilters.org/kindle-it/ 1. Enter a URL (we also have browser extensions) 2. Click 'Preview'
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by k1m 9y ago
Thank you, Tyler. Appreciate the kind words - that's really great to hear. :)
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by k1m 9y ago
We'll add images soon. As for the blog post, should work if you use the article URL: http://pdf.fivefilters.org/simple-print/url.php?size=A4#http...
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by k1m 9y ago
Can be broken down to roughly these steps: 1. The tool for extracting article content is Full-Text RSS[0]. It relies on arc90's original (open source) article detection algorithm, Readability, as well as a set of site-specific extracti
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by k1m 9y ago
The idea is to produce a PDF that makes the article more readable than if you relied on the default print output of the site itself. In somes cases, e.g. a site that's gone to the trouble of creating a good print stylesheet, printing f
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by k1m 9y ago
We'll have an API at some point for this. But our priority right now is making it easy to run yourself on a VPS instance.
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by k1m 9y ago
That shouldn't apply to this. This is intended for single articles. PDF Newspaper was originally intended for converting RSS feeds to PDF. For large feeds we had to limit how much we processed to avoid overwhelming the servers.
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by k1m 9y ago
Thanks! We also have an extension and app to convert web articles into Kindle ebooks: http://fivefilters.org/kindle-it/
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Show HN: Simple Print – Convert web articles into printable PDFs(pdf.fivefilters.org)
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by k1m 9y ago
The last part is great: Khalil: "It's not every day that a non-Googler gets to sit in a room full of people who work at Google, and are software engineers, and are advertising experts, and are you know market experts in different
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by k1m 9y ago
Thanks. Your original comment took issue with the statement that Assange was indeed interviewed in London by Swedish prosecutors. You said "This is simply not true." The issue for you seems to be that that the questions being put
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by k1m 9y ago
Problematic for whom? You seem more concerned about this than the Swedish prosecutors. It seems this was the procedure they agreed to. Whether it's normal or not I don't know. But they haven't made a fuss about it. And I thin
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by k1m 9y ago
Your original comment made it sound like they had no input in the questions being put to Assange. Merely "present" to observe Ecuador. This article suggests Sweden was involved and I don't see anything suggesting the procedur
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by k1m 9y ago
Do you have any sources for how the interview took place? And any indication that it was unfair? (I'm pretty sure Sweden would have refused to do it if they were unhappy with the process.) I don't know who asked the questions, or
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by k1m 9y ago
Are you suggesting the Swedish prosecution agreed to fly over to London just to sit and watch Ecuador interview Assange? I think we'd have heard more from Sweden about that if that were the case. :p
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by k1m 9y ago
Exactly. Sweden was clearly trying to say the in-embassy interview was out of the question, against Swedish law. Then completely backtracked and went ahead with it anyway. Doesn't inspire much confidence. Perhaps the UN ruling against

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