@marmaladefoo I'd like to convert some html documentation in GemText, I am not a coder though and I was thinking perhaps I may use Duckling-proxy to do the heavy part.
If this would be feasable would you share with me further tips to automize a bit the process?
Thanks,
G.
10 months ago · 👍 lykso
@kelbot - nice to see another gemini client having a go at rendering html. I do a similar approach in GemiNaut. · 10 months ago
@gnuserland - yes the pretty tables option can be a bit flaky, especially on large or complex tables. Without the -t flag you should be fine though! · 10 months ago
@marmaladefoo with option -t enabled eventually it crashes on a quite weighty html file (2MB)... 🤷 · 10 months ago
@kelbot I read about it but so far Lagrange/Android has become my primary source to browse the Gemini Space. · 10 months ago
@marmaladefoo @gnuserland If you haven't seen it the Offpunk gemini client may be of interest. It can now browse http links and uses the readability library to render them nicely. I wrote a little about it in smolZINE Issue 21. · 10 months ago
@marmaladefoo that was a great lecture!.
You guys are so amazing! 👏👏👏 · 10 months ago
@gnuserland - mozilla make their "readability" library available - https://github.com/mozilla/readability - , so if you are conversant with javascript you could probably use node to write a command line app for it. There are also some Go forks , such as this one - https://github.com/advancedlogic/GoOse - My own experience is that they can work well on some web pages but not on others, so its not a native part of my own conversion utilities · 10 months ago
@marmaladefoo & @kelbot just realized that DucklingProxy and Html2gmi come from the same person... 😅
If we could put a bit of Machine Learning into DucklingProxy I bet it could render the html page almost seamessly.
Also can DucklingProxy open a page in reading mode like Firefox does? · 10 months ago
hello @gnuserland and @kelbot - yes html2gmi is probably much more suitable. In fact both html2gmi and duckling proxy share an underlying library html2gemini. In the #gemini IRC channel someone recently reported converting 1000 pages from html to gmi using html2gmi. · 10 months ago
@kelbot thanks for the suggestion didn't know this project! 👍👍👍 · 10 months ago
I'm not really familiar with duckling proxy but it doesn't seem like quite the right tool for the job. I could be wrong but thought I'd mention that there are tools for converting html to gemtext. Like https://github.com/LukeEmmet/html2gmi · 10 months ago