Bypass paywalls with Outline.com

Outline.com ^ | 13 OCT 24 | E. Pluribus Unum

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I just discovered that you can enter the URL of an article that is behind a paywall into Outline.com and it returns a text copy of the entire article.

Just thought I'd past it on.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Don’t look now, but your virtue-signalling is showing.

[Falconspeed]

Thank you very much. I read MLB dot com news and the pages are full of ads, videos and photos. The Outline page is the solution for a clean page. Thank you.

[faucetman]

p

[tarator]

Weak. I have nobody to signal to.

[Nuc 1.1]

Isn’t that a bit like taking something?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, indeed! Me, too. Just pasted in the URL of the lead WSJ story about the market today and got the complete story from behind the paywall. This is fantastic.

BUT, how long before sites figure out how to block their technique? For now, it is great.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

How is this not theft?

It would be theft if no one else could read the article while you were viewing it via this page, or if afterward the article was not visible for anyone else to read.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All it’s doing is extracting the text that is already in the HTML file displayed on your screen.

Theft would be hacking into their server and stealing the file.

[Verbosus]

bookmark

[BlueHorseShoe]

It just doesn’t get it any better than that!!! ;^ )

[toast]

I usually did the right click and “view source” to see the article, but this is much easier reading.

[Bon mots]

I made a few bookmarklets that unlock a lot of sites...

• The Wall Street Journal
• The Economist
• Financial Times
• The Washington Post
• The New York Times
• Wired

and many, many more...

Also made one to find Amazon books for free, but it just broke... not sure why, I'll fix it in January when I get back from vacation...

Bookmarklets:

🍪Clear Cookies
javascript:(function () { var cookies = document.cookie.split("; "); for (var c = 0; c < cookies.length; c++) { var d = window.location.hostname.split("."); while (d.length > 0) { var cookieBase = encodeURIComponent(cookies[c].split(";")[0].split("=")[0]) + '=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; domain=' + d.join('.') + ' ;path='; var p = location.pathname.split('/'); document.cookie = cookieBase + '/'; while (p.length > 0) { document.cookie = cookieBase + p.join('/'); p.pop(); }; d.shift(); } } })();

✂Clear Cache
javascript:window.open(document.location + "?ClearCache=true", "_self");

🔎𝔾 Google Query
javascript:void(open('https://www.google.com/search?q='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)))

🔑Archive (Archiving an article might break a soft paywall - used to work for FT & WSJ)
javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

Find an Amazon book on Archive (You need to truncate the query string as they changed something... good homework!)
javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

Find an Amazon book on ePDF.tips
javascript: var book = encodeURIComponent(window.location.href); book = book.substring(31); book = book.replace('https://amazon.com/', ''); book = book.split('ebook')[0]; (open('https://epdf.tips/search/'+book))

FULL INSTRUCTIONS HERE HOW TO GET PAST ALL THOSE PESKY PAYWALLS!

[Bon mots]

Also, here's a bookmarklet script for Outline.com:

Outline:
javascript:(function()%7Bwindow.location.href %3D 'https%3A%2F%2Foutline.com%2F' %2B window.location.href%7D)()

[Bon mots]

Oh, and one more...

The one you originally posted as well as all of mine no longer work for the Wall Street Journal, so I found another way...

This way sets the referrer to Facebook - which still works!

Make this as a bookmarklet, or just drag the code to your bookmarks bar in Chrome or IE:

javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);

[Bon mots]

I updated my paywall killer script, now you can drag & drop it into your bookmarks bar.

Try it! Works with NY Times, Economist, FT, WSJ, WaPo...

Bookmarklets

[Bon mots]

WSJ finally blocked the last hacks just last week. More are here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3744210/posts?page=17#