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I have a tiny service I put on Vercel that takes a bookmarklet I click on any page, get the URL, scrape the content I send to it through my browser, then save that to Airtable.

I just realized I have like 12,000+ links I've saved (many of them from HN over the years), and Airtable is great for tagging, searching, etc!

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Can you share the service? Or share how you scrape the content? There's https://readability-bot.vercel.app that is based on Firefox's reader mode, but it doesn't work very well.

Here's a bookmarklet I've been using to submit HTML page data to a webhook endpoint: https://gist.github.com/theAJFM/c15535c0b7a994b126f41e127466...

It extracts the page's title, the url, and even prompts you to give it some tags if you need some.

You still need to host your own webhook to save it, but that too should be straightforward. Just use firefox's readability.js to strip the bloat elements and save it in your database. You could save it into Airtable like what OP's been doing, or even save it as a file in your cloud storage.

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