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Re:Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web by dleeftink on Monday August 14, 2023 @06:17PM (#37127485)
Not sure how it fares nowadays, but I used to employ Mercury Reader/API for this, now called Postlight Reader[1]. While not perfect, I found it to work for most daily reading needs.

[1]: https://reader.postlight.com/

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Re:Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web by adbarba on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @05:52AM (#37132001)
Concerning tooling I'd say you have two different worlds, JavaScript and Python, each with a series of tools to tackle such tasks. It's not easy to compare them directly because of varying software environments and I haven't had a chance to test JS tools thoroughly.

For the sake of completeness: Mozilla's Readability [1] is obviously a reference in the JS world.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/readability

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