txtdot

txtdot is a self‑hostable HTTP proxy that fetches a requested web page, extracts only the essential content—text, links, images and tables—and returns a minimal HTML view. By stripping out ads, heavy scripts and other non‑essential resources, it reduces bandwidth usage and speeds up loading, especially on slow connections. The proxy relies on Mozilla’s Readability library for the core parsing and can be extended with custom engines and plugins through its SDK.

The service can be accessed via a web interface where users enter a URL and choose an engine, or programmatically through JSON and raw‑HTML API endpoints. It also offers a media proxy, image compression via Sharp, and optional integration with a SearXNG search front‑end. All processing happens server‑side, so client browsers receive only static HTML without requiring JavaScript.

txtdot is distributed under the MIT license, is free and open source, and can be run directly with Node, built for production, or deployed via Docker. It is intended for users who want a lightweight, ad‑free browsing experience and for operators who wish to host their own bandwidth‑saving proxy.