Readability4J VS go-readability

Compare Readability4J vs go-readability and see what are their differences.

Readability4J

A Kotlin port of Mozilla‘s Readability. It extracts a website‘s relevant content and removes all clutter from it. (by dankito)

go-readability

Go package that cleans a HTML page for better readability. (by go-shiori)
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Readability4J go-readability
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Readability4J

Posts with mentions or reviews of Readability4J. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.
  • Creating an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2023
    Depending upon the type of content, one might want to look into using the Readability (Browder's reader view) to parse the webpage. It will give you all the useful info without the junk. Then you can put it in the DB as needed.

    https://github.com/mozilla/readability

    Btw, readability, is also available in few other languages like Kotlin:

    https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

  • How does Firefox's Reader View work?
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2022
    My Hacker News client HACK for iOS and Android has a reader mode ability browser. While on iOS, I was able to use the reader mode feature provided by SFSafariViewController, that wasn't available on android.

    So I had to read a ton about this. I ended up using a heavily modified Kotlin version of Readability:

    https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1464477788

  • Show HN: Instantly Listen to Any URL
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2021
    Not sure about OP but I just implemented this in my Hacker News android client (thanks for the idea OP).

    This is how I implemented it. I had already achieved article to "reader mode" by heavily customizing the Kotlin port of Mozilla‘s Readability:

    https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

    Then I pass the text via Android's TextToSpeech library and it works very well:

        fun trySpeaking(str:String){

go-readability

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-readability. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Readability4J and go-readability you can also consider the following projects:

article-extractor - To extract main article from given URL with Node.js

rdrview - Firefox Reader View as a command line tool

Just-Read - A customizable read mode web extension.

hnrss - Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News

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

readability - A standalone version of the readability lib

web-clipper - For Notion,OneNote,Bear,Yuque,Joplin。Clip anything to anywhere

nb - CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

unclutter - A modern reader mode and article library for your browser.

wayback-machine-downloader - Download an entire website from the Wayback Machine.

go-domdistiller - Go-DomDistiller is a Go port of the DOM Distiller library which implements Reader mode in Chrome for Android and Desktop. It has no dependencies on Chromium and is meant to run as a command line program or on a server.

awesome-hackernews - A curated list of FOSS tools to improve the Hacker News experience.