readability VS readability.php

Compare readability vs readability.php and see what are their differences.

readability

Readability is a library written in Go (golang) to parse, analyze and convert HTML pages into readable content. Originally an Arc90 Experiment, it is now incorporated into Safari’s Reader View. (by cixtor)

readability.php

PHP port of Mozilla's Readability.js (by fivefilters)
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readability readability.php
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0.0 6.3
about 1 year ago 12 days ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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readability

Posts with mentions or reviews of readability. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.
  • Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2023
  • Go Code Roast #2: readability.js port
    2 projects | dev.to | 28 Nov 2022
    In this video, I roast a port of a Mozilla Javascript library, readability.js (https://github.com/mozilla/readability) to Go (https://github.com/cixtor/readability).
  • The most underused browser feature
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2021
    I ported Mozilla’s Readability library to Go a couple of years ago [1] and use it every day to power a custom RSS feed of Hacker News via Reeder [2]. This is not a novelty, many people have ported Readability to different programming languages over the years.

    [1] https://github.com/cixtor/readability

    [2] https://github.com/cixtor/rssfeed

readability.php

Posts with mentions or reviews of readability.php. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-31.
  • Gripes with RSS after one week
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2022
    There are RSS readers like Tiny Tiny RSS [1] which are able to do exactly that (in this case using a PHP port of Mozilla's library [2]). Does not work in 100% of cases but is a really useful thing.

    [1] https://tt-rss.org/

    [2] https://github.com/fivefilters/readability.php

  • Nobel prize to the people behind reader mode
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 9 Jan 2022
    https://github.com/fivefilters/readability.php is port of it, and it's server backend support, ported from https://github.com/mozilla/readability
  • The most underused browser feature
    22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2021
    Any developers who'd like to contribute to improving how article content is extracted from web pages should check out Mozilla's Readability repository: https://github.com/mozilla/readability

    I'm currently trying to bring the PHP port up to speed here: https://github.com/fivefilters/readability.php

    We use currently use an older version as part of our article extraction for Push to Kindle: https://www.fivefilters.org/push-to-kindle/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing readability and readability.php you can also consider the following projects:

dom-distiller - Distills the DOM

readability - A standalone version of the readability lib

tranquility-reader-webextensions - Tranquility Reader rewritten using Webextensions API

tidy-html5 - The granddaddy of HTML tools, with support for modern standards

parser - 📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page

tridactyl - A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.

native_messenger - Native messenger for Tridactyl, a vim-like web-extension.

SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

ftr-site-config - Site-specific article extraction rules to aid content extractors, feed readers, and 'read later' applications.

awesome-reMarkable - A curated list of projects related to the reMarkable tablet