A twisted proxy that does readability style article extraction automatically. You can try it out by configuring your computer to use monocles.vatbra.in:80 as your proxy server.

Installation directions: (These directions assume Ubuntu 10.04. This is meant for getting up and running quickly, probably don't do it this way in any sort of "production" environment.)


setup your ubuntu installation with a user with sudo power
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install:
* git-core
* python-setuptools
* gcc
* libxml2
* libxslt-dev
* python-dev
* ncurses-dev
* python-twisted

sudo easy_install pip
clone this repository into /var 
cd /var/monocles
sudo pip install -r config/requirements.txt
sudo cp /var/monocles/config/monocles.pth /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/monocles.pth
sudo mkdir externals
cd externals
sudo clone https://github.com/buriy/python-readability
cd ..
sudo ./scripts/restart-prod.sh