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Title: Reader Mode using rdrview
Author: dflock
Created: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:59:53 +0000
State: closed
The https://github.com/eafer/rdrview project is an implementation of Firefox's Reader View as a command line tool. It's written in C, and seems to work well.
I think an option to use rdrview, in combination with the exiting user mode CSS would be a really useful feature. It does a great job of distilling the page's HTML into a much simpler version (`rdrview --html` for html output) - which would be much more predictable and vastly simpler to style using user/reader mode CSS.
--%--
From: rodarima
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:13:36 +0000
> The https://github.com/eafer/rdrview project is an implementation of Firefox's
> Reader View as a command line tool. It's written in C, and seems to work well.
>
> I think an option to use rdrview, in combination with the exiting user mode
> CSS would be a really useful feature. It does a great job of distilling the
> page's HTML into a much simpler version (`rdrview --html` for html output) -
> which would be much more predictable and vastly simpler to style using
> user/reader mode CSS.
You can extend Dillo with plugins to implement any automatic transformation that
you want. Here is a simple plugin in bash that runs rdrview and shows the page
in Dillo:
```sh
#!/bin/bash
# Copyright (c) 2025 Rodrigo Arias Mallo
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
IFS= read -d '>' auth # Ignore auth
IFS= read -d '>' cmd
dir="$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))"
case "$cmd" in
"<cmd='open_url' url='"*);;
*) echo $cmd; exit;;
esac
url=${cmd#"<cmd='open_url' url='"}
url=${url%"' '"}
serve_error() {
printf "<cmd='start_send_page' url='' '>\n"
printf "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"
echo "Error: $@"
exit 0
}
serve_page() {
set -x
url="$1"
url=${url#"rdrview:"}
printf "<cmd='start_send_page' url='' '>\n"
printf "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
echo "<!DOCTYPE html>"
echo "<html>"
echo "<head>"
# Optional:
#echo "<style>"
#cat "$dir/style.css"
#echo "</style>"
echo "</head>"
echo "<body>"
rdrview -E utf-8 --html "$url"
echo "</body>"
echo "</html>"
}
case "$url" in
rdrview:*) serve_page "$url";;
*) serve_error "unknown URL: ${url}";;
esac
```
I did a quick test but I find that sites don't really work that well as you seem
to suggest. I'll be happy to see a reasonably sized sample of sites that improve
substantially when using rdrview to consider adding it in a new git repo as a
new plugin.
We should add a mechanism to open the current page in a external tool, so that
the resulting outcome can be loaded in the same page or in a new tab. I'll need
to think about how to do it, probably with a CLI tool that can just open a new
tab like the new `link_action` option:
page_action="Open in reader mode:dillocli new-tab rdrview:$url"
For now just prepend rdrview: in front of the URL you want to transform. Refer
to the user manual and the other plugins to see how to install and use it.
--%--
From: rodarima
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:16:45 +0000
Some pages seem to improve with rdrview, so I assume it can still be useful.
I uploaded the plugin here: <https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-rdrview>
For now you will need to manually type the `rdrview:` prefix to enable the
reader mode, but I plan to make this type of transformations easier in the
future so you can do it from the menu or maybe with a keyboard shortcut.
I think we can close this issue now, as the basic support for rdrview is
available and address the rest of the improvements in other issues.
--%--
From: dflock
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:00:05 +0000
Thank you for you help, this is awesome! I'll try out the plugin :)
As you say, readability doesn't work well/at all on every page, depends on the HTML, but when it works, it's pretty great.
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