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📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2019-02-11 · latest 2022-03-31

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  1. I haven’t directly compared them, but I have also found mercury parser ( https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser ) to be pretty reliable. Its advantage is that you can directly pass it a page instead of having to give it a DOM. Since…
    comment by solarkraft · 2022-03-31 · in How does Firefox's Reader View work? (2020)
  2. …the web! I was working with Mercury Parser (pluggable parsing for different sites) in the past. https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser
    comment by spikej · 2021-10-10 · in Reading the web offline and distraction-free
  3. …Google Chrome: https://github.com/chromium/dom-distiller Mercury parser: https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser [1] https://instantview.telegram.org/
    comment by up6w6 · 2021-08-25 · in The most underused browser feature: reader mode
  4. …this for any given URL (from Pocket or other sources) by shelling out to an archive script such as https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser - I collected some suggestions for libraries to use here: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/14016…
    comment by simonw · 2021-07-26 · in A Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint
  5. …` [2] https://github.com/kotartemiy/newscatcher [3] https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper [4] https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser
    comment by artembugara · 2021-02-15 · in Show HN: Dato.rss – RSS Search
  6. I've personally used mercury-parser ( https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser/ ) in the past. It can display an article in clear text, Markdown, and HTML. I go with Markdown in order to have a permanent copy of the article within my…
    comment by input_sh · 2020-10-19 · in Rdrview – Firefox Reader View as a Linux command line tool
  7. …on Chrome, odds are you've probably stumbled upon Mercury Reader[1]. This is what powers it. [0] https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser/ [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mercury-reader/okn...
    comment by input_sh · 2020-06-20 · in RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS
  8. The repository is here: https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser If you want to try it out while the API is still accessible, visit https://mercurizer.herokuapp.com/
    comment by jboynyc · 2019-02-12 · in The engine that parses meaningful content out of web pages is now open source