Readability4J VS readable

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

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

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){

Original author here. Thanks for the submission. I built the service mostly for myself because I have an old Kobo eBook reader and the browser is pretty basic. This works very well, though.

Only after building it I realized that there could be more use-cases; for example when traveling and working from a bad connection. The pages are usually much more lightweight than the original ones and don't contain any trackers.

I don't even have metrics for that service. No idea how many people are using it and I don't care for the most part. That said, if anyone is interested in using the service you can run your own instance and be completely independent.

The code is here BTW: https://github.com/readable-app/readable.

Did you mean the meta headers? Any example in particular that I could look at? We're in the process of testing different readability libraries. Here's a discussion on what we saw so far: https://github.com/readable-app/readable/issues/2 Maybe you can add a comment there so we don't forget to check your use-case.