Do you accept feature requests/think this might be a good idea?
I've been thinking about creating this + adding https://github.com/mozilla/readability to grab the links that are text articles and present them in-page (and cleaned up, just the text+images+similar, removing all the sidebars, popups, etc) instead of having to go to a 3rd party website with all the popups and such.
It'd have to be either a personal website or a browser extension like yours, since I wouldn't be able to host a given article for anyone to read (for copyright reasons), but I can have a modified browser that loads a 3rd party article different.
It's a nice idea! One consideration would be how to grab the html of the pages. In my experience, using either fetch() or an ajax request often runs into problems with CORS etc on the destination site blocking the request.
Maybe there's a better way someone knows for extensions to grab remote html without running into these problems?
The alternative would be for the extension to grab the html via API from a crawler running on a server (or SaaS), which should work pretty well.
I've been thinking about creating this + adding https://github.com/mozilla/readability to grab the links that are text articles and present them in-page (and cleaned up, just the text+images+similar, removing all the sidebars, popups, etc) instead of having to go to a 3rd party website with all the popups and such.
It'd have to be either a personal website or a browser extension like yours, since I wouldn't be able to host a given article for anyone to read (for copyright reasons), but I can have a modified browser that loads a 3rd party article different.