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Site-specific article extraction rules to aid content extractors, feed readers, and 'read later' applications.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2016-01-23 · latest 2026-03-07

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    Full-Text RSS site config files
    story by microflash · 2026-03-07 · 0 comments
  2. …trunk, if configured, it uses ftr-site-config rules to extract content for specific websites ( https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config ) I do 90% of my browsing using Offpunk (reading blogs and articles) and, suprizingly, it often…
    comment by ploum · 2026-01-13 · in Text-based web browsers
  3. …maintain a repository of XPath selectors for extracting article content from many different sites: https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config - they're based on the original public Instapaper rules. We also have PDF generation, but…
    comment by k1m · 2022-02-20 · in Show HN: Newser, utility written in go to generate a pdf with news content
  4. …mentioning Instant View, I hadn't come across that. We actually maintain something similar here: https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config We use these in our own tools and also get contributions from others, including Wallabag users:…
    comment by k1m · 2021-08-25 · in The most underused browser feature: reader mode
  5. …[1] https://github.com/mozilla/readability [2] https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/ [3] https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config
    comment by k1m · 2021-07-03 · in Back to the Future with RSS
  6. To help extract article content, you might be interested in this collection I help maintain: https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config/ It's used, in addition to an automatic article extractor, in Full-Text RSS:…
    comment by k1m · 2020-06-20 · in RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS
  7. …this already, but we maintain a collection of article extraction rules for various sites here https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config - it was adapted from a database maintained by Instapaper in its early days and today has…
    comment by k1m · 2020-04-14 · in The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper
  8. …extraction rules (they were hidden after Marco sold it I think) which can now be found here: https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config/ We get contributions from users of Wallabag (good open source alternative to Instapaper/Pocket).…
    comment by k1m · 2018-07-17 · in Instapaper is going independent
  9. I thought you weren't getting the content text at all. :) Should be fixed now. We now strip that out: https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config/blob/master/e... But I don't consider that a big problem - lots of sites include things…
    comment by k1m · 2018-05-08 · in Show HN: txtify.it – Easily convert web articles to plain text
  10. …3 (larger font size) four pages, then we return PDF 2. [0] http://fivefilters.org/content-only/ [1] https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config [2] http://fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/
    comment by k1m · 2018-02-04 · in Show HN: Simple Print – Convert web articles into printable PDFs
  11. specific xpath are available here https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config
    comment by nicosomb · 2016-01-23 · in Show HN: Wallabag, a self-hostable application for saving web pages