How To Read Paywalled Articles.

2025-02-02 at 10:49 PM UTC

#1

Kingoftoes Tuskegee Airman

Have you ever been sent a link to an article only to open it to a nasty paywall? Well look no further, the following site allows you to bypass paywalls by accessing an archived version of the site.

https://archive.ph/

Here is an example:

I was trying to read this article earlier, but it is locked behind a paywall: https://www.bevindustry.com/articles/96378-generation-z-shakes-things-up-in-beverage

However, after simply putting the link into the search bar at the bottom of archive.ph, I was able to read it just fine: https://archive.ph/TNxAX

Enjoy using this to read articles that are gatekept from normal people by stupid people that stumbled across enough money to pay 10$ a month to read their shitty New York Times articles.

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2025-02-02 at 11:48 PM UTC

#2

the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

that site will go down eventually we must build kernal level methods to do this automatically I propose a system that auto detects text formats and rips them

import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import os

def save_article(content, url, format="txt"):
    filename = url.replace("https://", "").replace("http://", "").replace("/", "_")
    filename = filename[:50]  # Trim long filenames
    
    if format == "txt":
        with open(f"{filename}.txt", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            f.write(content)
    else:
        with open(f"{filename}.html", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            f.write(content)
    
    print(f"Saved: {filename}.{format}")

async def extract_article(url):
    async with async_playwright() as p:
        browser = await p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
        page = await browser.new_page()
        await page.goto(url, timeout=60000)
        
        # Get page content after rendering
        html = await page.content()
        
        # Extract article content
        soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
        article = soup.find("article")
        
        if article:
            text = article.get_text(separator="\n").strip()
            save_article(text, url, "txt")
            save_article(str(article), url, "html")
        else:
            print("Could not extract article.")
        
        await browser.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    url = input("Enter article URL: ")
    asyncio.run(extract_article(url))

"In June 2013, JDownloader's ability to download copyrighted and protected RTMPE streams was considered illegal by a German court. This feature was never provided in an official build, but was supported by a few nightly builds."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDownloader

like this but for txt

2025-02-02 at 11:49 PM UTC

#3

the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

Also I heard they have a modules on WORM HOLE BBS or some other BBS where you can load clearnet sites but because of the old interface it just loads the normal article with a script that parses everything automatically so old heads can read it on their commodore 64s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

I cannot get this shit to run but i'm retarded

2025-02-03 at 1:09 AM UTC

#4

Kingoftoes Tuskegee Airman

Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood that site will go down eventually we must build kernal level methods to do this automatically I propose a system that auto detects text formats and rips them

import asyncio
from playwright.async_api import async_playwright
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import os

def save_article(content, url, format="txt"):
    filename = url.replace("https://", "").replace("http://", "").replace("/", "_")
    filename = filename[:50]  # Trim long filenames
    
    if format == "txt":
        with open(f"{filename}.txt", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            f.write(content)
    else:
        with open(f"{filename}.html", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            f.write(content)
    
    print(f"Saved: {filename}.{format}")

async def extract_article(url):
    async with async_playwright() as p:
        browser = await p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
        page = await browser.new_page()
        await page.goto(url, timeout=60000)
        
        # Get page content after rendering
        html = await page.content()
        
        # Extract article content
        soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
        article = soup.find("article")
        
        if article:
            text = article.get_text(separator="\n").strip()
            save_article(text, url, "txt")
            save_article(str(article), url, "html")
        else:
            print("Could not extract article.")
        
        await browser.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    url = input("Enter article URL: ")
    asyncio.run(extract_article(url))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDownloader

like this but for txt

J downloader works great for music too.

2025-02-03 at 1:10 AM UTC

#5

Fluttershy Short Bussy

Next do one for gaywalled articles

2025-02-03 at 1:23 AM UTC

#6

Kingoftoes Tuskegee Airman

Originally posted by Fluttershy Next do one for gaywalled articles

Only you and Brad can read those.

2025-02-03 at 1:46 AM UTC

#7

Fluttershy Short Bussy

Originally posted by Kingoftoes Only you and Brad can read those.

not funny at all! >:c

2025-02-03 at 3:07 AM UTC

#8

the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

auto control + a

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2025-02-03 at 1:08 PM UTC

#9

Charles Ex Machina Naturally Camouflaged

i just read the source code of the page.

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