Clean Reader is an open-source server-side reader mode written in Rust. Main goals of clean reader:
- Reduce data usage and make the web greener (92% less data usage on average)
- Extract only meaningful content
- Remove all web bloat (JS, Fonts, CSS, Ads...)
- Make pages static and tracker free
- Make pages uniform, customizable, and easy to read
- Make pages load faster (With no JS, CSS... pages load a lot faster).
- Make pages downloadable in one small static HTML file
- Reduce web tracking from your ISP, Government, and companies like Google, Facebook...
- A server fetches the page you want to access for you (Only the HTML part)
- It extracts the main content of the page
- It generates a clean tree structure from it
- And generate back a tiny HTML file
- Cache it to reduce data consumption
- As of September 2016, the average web page is 2496 kB in size and requires 140 requests.
- The average clean reader page is 14kB in size and requires one request.
Download the extension and load it in google chrome Firefox extension page
Go in releases and download the latest server for your OS
- Clone the repo
- Run:
cargo build --release - The server can be found in
target/release
- Open the extension panel
- Enter the IP of your server in the server field (the default server URL will be
http://localhost:8080)
All contributions are welcome! Feel free to fork, open issues, create PRs and contact me on discord (ccgauche#6939).
- Add an image compression / hosting service to increase anonymity
- Add a TUI
- Add a default server
- Create an onion endpoint to this server
- Add a button to download as markdown
- Compute synthax highlighting on the server side
- Add configuration options in the extension
- Add a custom KeyBind in the extension
- Add a TamperMonkey script as an alternative to the extension
- Add a way to download the page as a PDF
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