Top 4 HTML Readability Projects

go-readability

4 643 5.1 HTML

Go package that cleans a HTML page for better readability.
ReadabiliPy

1 179 2.0 HTML

A simple HTML content extractor in Python. Can be run as a wrapper for Mozilla's Readability.js package or in pure-python mode.

Project mention: Mozilla: Readability.js | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-25

I have used and love readability.js. I used it in an application that lets you run various NLP analyses over a web page (surprisals, reading time, word counts, etc.). For that, I needed only the main page content. readability.js retrieves main page content well, consistently.
The Alan Turing Institute maintains a Python wrapper around readability.js, too: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/ReadabiliPy.
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Readability4J

3 128 4.3 HTML

A Kotlin port of Mozilla‘s Readability. It extracts a website‘s relevant content and removes all clutter from it.

Project mention: Creating an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-12

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
readable

3 78 4.7 HTML

📖 A service for reading long-form content on any device

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