dom-distiller VS readability.php

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

dom-distiller

Distills the DOM (by chromium)

readability.php

PHP port of Mozilla's Readability.js (by fivefilters)
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dom-distiller readability.php
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0.0 4.8
over 2 years ago 10 months ago
Java HTML
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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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.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 dom-distiller and readability.php you can also consider the following projects:

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.

readability - A standalone version of the readability lib

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

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

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

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

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

Wallabag - wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.

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

SponsorBlock - Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser 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.

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