soup-strainer VS Readability4J

Compare soup-strainer vs Readability4J and see what are their differences.

soup-strainer

A reimplementation of the Readability/Decruft algorithm using BeautifulSoup and html5lib (by rcarmo)

Readability4J

A Kotlin port of Mozilla‘s Readability. It extracts a website‘s relevant content and removes all clutter from it. (by dankito)
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soup-strainer Readability4J
1 3
33 135
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10.0 4.3
about 10 years ago over 2 years ago
Python HTML
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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soup-strainer

Posts with mentions or reviews of soup-strainer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-30.
  • How does Firefox's Reader View work?
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2022
    I implemented a variation of the Readability algorithm some 9 years ago, in case anyone needs a server-side Python version and is interested in dragging it (kicking and screaming) into the 2020s:

    https://github.com/rcarmo/soup-strainer

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){

What are some alternatives?

When comparing soup-strainer and Readability4J you can also consider the following projects:

dom-distiller - Distills the DOM

go-readability - Go package that cleans a HTML page for better readability.