Show HN: Emissary, a RESTful, scriptable content extraction service

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Not sure what this does, is it able to automatically extract data from a page? Those are notoriously unreliable, in my own experience, but maybe I'm not getting the full picture here, I read the docs but not sure what this is

Yeah it's an RSS reader that stores plain text. There's an included client that will pipe the text into less but with it being a REST API you could retrieve the data from other stuff. For instance, a +news IRC channel mode: http://i.cubeupload.com/9ApdXQ.png

oh okay so it requires RSS feed, it can't automatically detect content on a given web page?

Might be interesting if connected with Huginn.

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