Re: [tw] Building a scraper service for TW5

2018-01-21 Thread Abraham Samma
Ok, Andreas, I *may* support Xpath, just not now yet. On Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 11:06:59 PM UTC+3, Andreas Hahn wrote: > > Hi Abraham, > > that sounds pretty interesting, I've had some thoughts about that in the > past too, but I've never tried to do it. Are you (planning on) using the

Re: [tw] Building a scraper service for TW5

2018-01-19 Thread Abraham Samma
Thanks for your interest Andreas. Xpath will not be supported for now. And no, everything is parsed by the server before returning it to your wiki. No browser messaging used. Spares me of worrying about future browser vendor support ;-) Another reason for this design choice is: 1. You can

Re: [tw] Building a scraper service for TW5

2018-01-18 Thread 'Andreas Hahn' via TiddlyWiki
Hi Abraham, that sounds pretty interesting, I've had some thoughts about that in the past too, but I've never tried to do it. Are you (planning on) using the Browser messaging mechanism that plugin libraries also use to inject the scraped tiddlers into the TW? Will the scraping support XPATH

[tw] Building a scraper service for TW5

2018-01-18 Thread Abraham Samma
Hello all, Recently I have been experimenting with building an external service for scraping and converting web articles into readable versions that can be added into a tiddlywiki. For those who use Firefox's Pocket app, it is the same concept, just for TW5 instead. I believe this would