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Top 9 JavaScript Readability Projects

Readability

  1. percollate

    A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs.

    Project mention: Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-21

    For those interested in a simple to use command line tool that accomplishes the same I've had success with percollate - https://github.com/danburzo/percollate

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  3. article-extractor

    To extract main article from given URL with Node.js

    Project mention: Show HN: I built an AI satirical news site because news was depressing me | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-06

    Actually, I kept it simple - I use the original images from the news articles! When I fetch an article through RSS and extract its content using the @extractus/article-extractor library, it pulls the main image along with the content.

    https://github.com/extractus/article-extractor

  4. Just-Read

    A customizable read mode web extension.

  5. apca-w3

    The APCA version, to be licensed for use with guidelines: W3/AGWG.

    Project mention: Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-22

    This is a fair question/critique. As I understand it, this is a particular consideration for coders and readers with dyslexia, as they flip the letters. The thought process is that by making the characters distinct, it reduces this problem.

    I learned about mirror glyphs through a document linked in the Accessible Perceptual Contrast Algorithm (APCA) website. For context, APCA is the system that aims to supplant current color calculation methods in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

    https://apcacontrast.com/

  6. stutter

    RSVP for browsers (by jamestomasino)

  7. retext-readability

    plugin to check readability

  8. readability-extractor

    Javascript/Node wrapper around Mozilla's Readability library so that ArchiveBox can call it as a oneshot CLI command to extract each page's article text.

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  10. line-length

    Measure lines of text on a page

  11. validate-access

    Parse a & Validate a given directory with multiple entries

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Readability projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 percollate 4,478
2 article-extractor 1,737
3 Just-Read 1,254
4 apca-w3 168
5 stutter 153
6 retext-readability 96
7 readability-extractor 40
8 line-length 5
9 validate-access 3

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