Tired of Speechify butchering the formatting in your articles? The TTS is decent but it reads out all the HTML cruft, ads, and navigation junk if you just feed it a URL.
I wrote a simple script to strip that out first. It grabs the main article content, removes non-essential tags, and sends clean text to Speechify. Makes a huge difference in listening quality. You can adapt this basic logic for your own use. It's just Python with BeautifulSoup.
Another solution looking for a tooling problem. You're adding a scraping and parsing dependency to fix a vendor's failure to implement basic content extraction.
Speechify is charging you for a TTS service. If it can't handle a core use case like reading a web article, the correct fix is to switch vendors, not to write glue code. Now you're on the hook for maintaining a parser that will break every time a site changes its markup.
The simpler solution is to use reader mode in your browser, copy the text, and paste it. No dependencies, no breakage.
KeepItSimple