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inhumantsar / slurp

Slurps webpages and saves them as clean, uncluttered Markdown. Think Pocket, but better.
https://inhumantsar.github.io/slurp/
MIT License
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Comparison to Omnivore? #49

Open AlJohri opened 3 months ago

AlJohri commented 3 months ago

Since I believe this tool lives in the same space, would love to hear your thoughts on how this compares to the Omnivore Obsidian Integration using the obsidian-omnivore plugin.

inhumantsar commented 3 months ago

I built this because Pocket has languished since they were acquired by Mozilla. Based on my quick browse of the Omnivore site, I would say it looks like what Pocket should have become.

Omnivore and Slurp serve similar purposes, though Omnivore is clearly more advanced. The main differences are that Omnivore is a SaaS and Mac/iOS/Android only.

With Slurp+Obsidian, you lose the advanced features like RSS and newsletter support, but gain complete cross platform support and never have to worry about a third party handling your data. Everything is handled locally and Slurp doesn't use any telemetry. Also syncing and encryption is entirely within the user's control. The biggest downside to the Slurp+Obsidian setup imho is that Obsidian itself is not open source.

Of course, being open-source and privacy-focused, I'm confident that Omnivore maintainers can be trusted with user data but there's always the chance that the service shuts down suddenly or suffers a data breach or something along those lines.

Thanks for bringing this up! I had never heard of Omnivore before and it looks super interesting. Both the product itself as well as the general structure of an open-source by-donation SaaS. I'm going to look more deeply into this and maybe steal some of their ideas to use in Slurp ;)