Do y’all know about textise? I don’t see mention of it come up in a quick search. https://www.textise.net/

It can be used with the duckduckgo bang !textise

It also works over Tor, where I can use it as a proxy to avoid Cloudflare checkpoints.

I don’t think that it is open source but not completely sure.

Copy from the site intro:

Textise is a new way of looking at the Web. It’s an internet tool that removes everything from a web page except for its text. In practice, this means that images, forms, scripts, adverts, they all go, leaving plain text. Find out more here… (https://textise.wordpress.com/about-textise/)

How to use this page

  1. Type or paste the URL of a web page into the box below and click “Textise”. A text only version of the web page will be displayed.
  2. Type a search term into the box, select a search engine from the drop-down list, and click “Search”. You will be taken to a text only version of the search results.
  • pragmakist
    13•8 months ago

    Oh, by the way, text-only browsers are still a thing.

    You might want to look at links and/or lynx and see if they cover your usecase.

    • @Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
      8•8 months ago

      I was just thinking… “this isn’t new, this is 2 decades old and called lynx” lol

      edit: over 3 decades. the first version of lynx was released in 1992.

      I’ve used it on Linux but I’m sure it can be used on Windows via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

    • fmstratAEnglish
      7•8 months ago

      The oldest browser still being maintained, in fact.