https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1811.03661/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30868880urn:hackerpapers:mention:1811.03661:30868880Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:15:40 GMT<p>I&#x27;ve been working on several web extractors project, so I think I could share some of my findings while working on them. Granted it&#x27;s been several months since I worked on it so I might be forgetting some things. There are several open source projects for extracting web contents. However, there are three extractors that I&#x27;ve worked with and give us good result: - readability.js[1], web extractor by Mozilla that used in Firefox. - dom-distiller[2], web extractor by Chromium team, written in Java. - trafilatura[3], Python package by Adrien Barbaresi from BBAW[4]. First, readability.js, as…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1811.03661/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.IR