What link proxies do you use to bypass news paywalls?

Not sure if this is the right community but seems close enough.

Ideally i want a url that i can just put any paywalled news article into that will return the unpaywalled version.

Ie: https://somedomain/https://somenewssite/somenewsartle

I need it to work with https://pypi.org/project/newspaper4k/

Alternativly if someone knows of another python library that can extract article text and images automaticly just from a link that would also solve my problem.

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Generally, 12ft.io works pretty well for me.

Most of the time archive.today gets the work done
It also offers a URL to get a snapshot from a given URL: http://archive.is/newest/http://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

Looks like newspaper4k uses headless Chrome. You could try loading the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension and browsing the pages directly.
I regularly use it (in Firefox) without even thinking about it. Only notice when I send someone an article they can't access.
- It does not use headless chrome it just uses the python requests library. Did u get got by an ai hallucination?
  Source: i went digging in the source code.
  
  No, just this example code from their site:
  
  browser = p.chromium.launch(headless=True)
  My mistake was not knowing where newspaper4k fits in the stack. They're wrapping it with Playwright, which it seems you could do here.

Why use one when you can use 6
https://byebyepaywall.com/en/
- Yeah ive tried that only some of em work in an easy way to implement but if the one im currently using goes down then i guess ill have to bodge somthing together.

12ft works, if you really need to. But in general, I just don’t read any publications that paywall their content. Mass media is all owned by one or two billionaires, if they need money they can get it from them.

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