Reader - A self hosted reader mode for news articles
reddit / selfhosted

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HydroPhobeFireMan · 2023-11-30 09:00

Hey r/selfhosted I was looking for an application that let me paste a
link to an article and be able to read it without any clutter. I did
find a lot of chrome extensions but I wanted something that would work
on all of my devices even in places where I don't have extensions
installed. I didn't really look for a service as I also might want the
ability to save all the articles in a local cache and I don't want a
cloud service for that.

so I wrote a tiny script instead that will take in a URL, and use the
[postlight parser](https://github.com/postlight/parser) to convert
articles into reader mode content.

This was basically a 15 min project so far so it does pretty much what
it says. Nothing more, nothing less.

try it out: [https://github.com/Hydrophobefireman/reader/tree/master](
https://github.com/Hydrophobefireman/reader/tree/master)

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BelugaBilliam · 2023-11-30 21:41

Looks cool! Works well too. I tried the demo!