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Posted by Tim McKyer
Tim McKyer
10,989 Points

Text reader API?

Hey guys, does anyone know of a free api that can read text from a webpage?

1 Answer

patrickgardner
patrickgardner
7,395 Points
patrickgardner
patrickgardner
7,395 Points

Maybe something like this would help: https://www.kimonolabs.com/

Otherwise, you could write a scraper. I'm not sure what language you'd prefer to do that in, but maybe (Javascript?)[https://scotch.io/tutorials/scraping-the-web-with-node-js]

Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Tim;

Yes, you could indeed build such an application in JavaScript or a multitude of other languages.

Ken

Tim McKyer
Tim McKyer
10,989 Points

Javascript is what I am planning to write it in, so are you saying that I can write a scraper with node.js and have that read all of the text on the page?