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Re:Show HN: Eat the News – A text extraction playground for ... by foreigner on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:02PM (#22576753)
What is this actually for?
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Re:Show HN: Eat the News – A text extraction playground for ... by copypirate on Saturday March 14, 2020 @02:37PM (#22577522)
The main API extracts text from news pieces, blogs, PR content, and other text-heavy pages with a GET request.

The free account gives you access to a GUI where you can paste/upload your URLs to extract text from. The "playground" is a collection of RSS feeds with links you can extract text from, to try out the capabilities of the API.

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Re:Show HN: Eat the News – A text extraction playground for ... by foreigner on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:18PM (#22577881)
Right I understand what it does, but what is it for? Why would someone want to do this?
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Re:Show HN: Eat the News – A text extraction playground for ... by copypirate on Saturday March 14, 2020 @03:32PM (#22577993)
Personal use case was compiling a news dataset to train a topic model.
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