Back in 2016, The Economist used to block access from lynx. You'd get an error like this (unless you spoofed the user agent to be something other than lynx):

Error 403 You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake.

You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake.

  Guru Meditation:

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Tbh, I was probably running some clone like bobcat.

I don't love reading long articles in fixed-width fonts.

Then pipeline to a PS/PDF generator.

For most modern Web publishing, this is mostly a matter of finding and extracting the <article> block, as well as metadata (title, byline, dateline).

html-xml-tools is quite useful for this.

I'd created a WaPo extractor that reduced pagesize by about 95%, stripped the nags and paywalls, etc. Endpoint was HTML, but that could just as easily have generated PDF or ePub if I'd wanted.

I applaud people who take advantage of the fact that the internet is still largely machine-readable and hackable.

I am much lazier, but I use "reader mode" to similar effect.

Outline works well too:

https://outline.com/jtdYRj

W3M is fine too.