I recently bought a Lotus Elise and have set up a small website to collect most of the things new owners need to know about the car - https://lotus-center.vercel.app/

You can use Microlink to turn PDF into HTML, and combine it with other service for processing the text data.

Here an example turning a arxiv paper into real text:

https://api.microlink.io/?data.html.selector=html&embed=html...

It looks like PDF, but it you open devtools you can see it's actually a very precise HTML representation.

For getting the HTML, you can use microlink, just passing the URL to https://html.microlink.io/{url}, like https://html.microlink.io/https://example.com

It works like a charm, just :wow:

"The author deleted this Medium story"

any mirror for reading the original content?

That's a thing I've working for a while after evaluating some similar services out there that don't fit all the things I needed.

Q: Yet another Screenshot as a service?

Yes! but you will find this one is completely different.

Q: Why is this different?

What makes it stand out from the rest is the server-side solution: the screenshot image will be served from a CDN, being available globally and you won’t have to worry about downloading or storing it.

Q: Why is this better?

This allows the service to provide some extra things there, like automagically refreshing the screenshot after a time: this means the screenshot always reflects the content behind the target URL .

Q: Will the screenshot be fancy?

So fancy.

Microlink screenshots support browser overlay (light and dark theme) and custom background color or gradient .

Q: How configurable is it?

You can hide, click, wait or scroll to elements. Also, you can emulate a list of 71 devices. The screenshot can be full page and the output can be PNG or JPEG.

Q: Can you block trackers, popups, etc?

Sure, this is done by default.

Q: Cookie banners as well?

Yes, specially cookie banners .

Q: Sounds good, but what about pricing?

It starts at $0. The API has a daily rate limit; If you reach it and you need more, you can jump to a pro plan, they are intentionally cheap.

Q: How can I be sure all this is true?

We did a comparison table of similar services and what kind of features they offer: http://bit.ly/saasforscreenshot

Product Hunt thread: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/microlink-screenshot

Similar but just for getting normalized metadata: https://microlink.io

Hello,

microlink.io is a service for getting relevant information from any website.

with him, you can easily convert your links into beautiful previews. Similar to Facebook URLs on timeline or cards on Twitter/Medium, but out of the box.

This is an example using microlink into my Jekyll blog:

https://kikobeats.com/what-is-random/#truly-random

We built microlink.js to make the integration easy from the frontend side:

https://microlink.js.org

WordPress integration is coming; feel free to suggest one as well!

The pricing of the service is based on API calls. We offer a generous free plan under daily rate limit. Pro plans is oriented to popular sites, with thousands or daily request.

All the information about what the API can do is under:

https://docs.microlink.io

PS: If you feedback the project write your Twitter account and we follow you :-)

thanks!