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"We should do a web-to-markdown thing since so much websites are unreadable."

THE FASCINATOR: that cheeky hacker Aaron beat you to this ~ http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/html2text.py and http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/ ... old, interesting to see if it's still usable after almost 15yrs.

Latest code at: https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text

There are quite some forks, this could be interesting to watch, thanks.

> We should do a web-to-mardown thing since so much websites are unreadable.

Opera used to have really great settings (something like 20 different presets) for overriding CSS. Really made things a lot more legible and was a quick fix for broken websites. Sometimes I still use Lynx.

Safari (for macOS and iOS) also has this with reader mode. Works well for most websites.

Firefox in recent versions, too.

I've been disappointed so much with the changes to firefox UI over the last couple of years, so it's great to have something positive. Reader is a resounding success with me, given the terrible low contrast, difficult to read, web design trends over the same time span.

Thanks. :-)