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Textise - removes everything from a webpage except its text (and links) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do y'all know about textise? I don't see mention of it come up in a quick search. https://www.textise.net/

It can be used with the duckduckgo bang !textise

It also works over Tor, where I can use it as a proxy to avoid Cloudflare checkpoints.

I don't think that it is open source but not completely sure.

Copy from the site intro:

Textise is a new way of looking at the Web. It’s an internet tool that removes everything from a web page except for its text. In practice, this means that images, forms, scripts, adverts, they all go, leaving plain text. Find out more here... (https://textise.wordpress.com/about-textise/)

How to use this page

Type or paste the URL of a web page into the box below and click "Textise". A text only version of the web page will be displayed.

Type a search term into the box, select a search engine from the drop-down list, and click "Search". You will be taken to a text only version of the search results.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Why use this over Reading Mode?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My use case is to access text and link content on a web page anonymously over Tor without getting blocked by Cloudflare.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Quite elaborate, but fair enough

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I don’t think all websites supports read mode.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Good point. Though I have to say, I'm not a fan of what uBlock Origin shows me when visiting Textise

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Does textise support what Reader mode doesn't? If reader mode can't determine the central content, does textise have more logic to so so?

Given the wording I also want to point out a website doesn't have to actively explicitly support reader mode. They only have to follow html website standards marking their content - a general accessibility approach too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Technically, you’re correct.

However, many websites doesn’t follow the appropriate HTML standards and just abuse h1 and p.

I just tried it with Google.com and it seems to remove all html notations other than text.

It useful in some cases such as wordpress one-page websites which have their story, mission, products, etc..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Another issue with reader mode is that it often doesn't work with comment sections (which I often download for reading on my e-reader).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I prefer Tranquility Reader add-on (no need for a 3rd party service). Firefox' native Reader Mod is not compatible with addons, like translation ones. Tranquility Reader is a bit more configurable too, but that's just an extra.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Does the new natively integrated translation feature work with it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Update: The native local translation is indeed compatible with Tranquility Reader add-on. They work with both combinations of:

First translate the page, then enable Tranquility mode
First enable Tranquility mode, then translate the page

See screenshot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Good to know, that's pretty cool then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

EDIT-2: It works

EDIT: I was wrong, as pointed below, it's a core feature: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

~~If you mean the official addon Firefox Translations (AFAIK there is no real native translation on FF, but let me know if I'm wrong), I just did a quick test and it seems to work.~~

See screenshot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's a core feature now.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Version 118 integrated translations based on this exact addon, I believe. Same project behind it, Bergamot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also why does Android not have this? I keep going to press it and nothing's there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just tried it in Firefox for Android and it worked for me.

https://Lemmy.world !textise

opened up to

https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2F