dom-distiller VS readability

Compare dom-distiller vs readability and see what are their differences.

dom-distiller

Distills the DOM (by chromium)

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)
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dom-distiller readability
3 3
594 97
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0.0 0.0
over 2 years ago about 1 year ago
Java Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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dom-distiller

Posts with mentions or reviews of dom-distiller. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-30.

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dom-distiller and readability you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

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

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

soup-strainer - A reimplementation of the Readability/Decruft algorithm using BeautifulSoup and html5lib

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

einkbro - A small, fast web browser based on Android WebView. It's tailored for E-Ink devices but also works great on normal android devices.

readability.php - PHP port of Mozilla's Readability.js

readability - A standalone version of the readability lib