# danburzo/percollate

A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs.

Repository: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/percollate
Homepage: https://danburzo.ro/projects/percollate/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: puppeteer, pdf, readability, cli, epub, html, markdown
Last push: 2025-08-29T18:07:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 53/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 39, release rhythm 45, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2896, "days_push": 369, "days_rel": 369, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4667, forks 175 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:56.533496+00:00)

## What it is
Percollate is a Node.js command-line tool that converts web pages into readable, well-formatted PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown documents. It combines readability extraction with Puppeteer rendering and supports bundling multiple URLs, local files, or stdin input.

## Use cases
- save web articles as clean pdfs for offline reading
- convert web pages to epub for my e-reader
- extract readable markdown from a url
- bundle multiple blog posts into one pdf
- turn an rss feed into an ebook
- strip ads and clutter from web pages before printing

## When to choose
- you want reader-view style PDF/EPUB output from web pages via the command line
- you need to batch-convert or bundle multiple URLs into a single document
- you want customizable output via CSS, templates, or Markdown conversion

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI or browser-extension reader mode
- you need pixel-perfect capture of complex JavaScript-heavy pages rather than readable text
- you cannot install Node.js and Puppeteer dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: pdf, cli, web-scraping, parser, markdown, templating
- domain: developer-tools, pdf, web-development
- platform: cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: readability, epub, puppeteer, offline-reading, reader-view, html-to-pdf, web-to-epub, command-line, nodejs, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- danburzo/percollate (main) score 53

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:56.533496+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:19:24.702347+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:56.533496+00:00, sha 5b31f0ff67fa)
  - homepage: https://danburzo.ro/projects/percollate/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:04:02.413697+00:00, sha 37864a34000f)
  - site_page: https://danburzo.ro/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:04:02.422449+00:00, sha aed35c24f794)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/percollate (fetched 2026-08-29T09:04:02.424112+00:00, sha d095e0cfddb3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.