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.
Why use this over Reading Mode?
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.
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…
My use case is to access text and link content on a web page anonymously over Tor without getting blocked by Cloudflare.
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.
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
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
Also why does Android not have this? I keep going to press it and nothing’s there
This also seems to be great for low-bandwidth mobile connections. The advantage over reader mode here is that only the plain text is sent and not all the images, large styles and scripts…
That could be very useful when using a text-based web browser (e.g. TUI)
