Readability is a tool for extracting and curating the primary readable content of a webpage.

The package can be installed as:

Add :readability to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:readability, "~> 0.12"}
  ]
end

After that, run mix deps.get.

Note: Readability requires Elixir 1.10 or higher.

url = "https://medium.com/@kenmazaika/why-im-betting-on-elixir-7c8f847b58"
summary = Readability.summarize(url)

summary.title
#=> "Why I’m betting on Elixir"

summary.published_at
#=> ~U[2015-02-23 16:53:27.006Z]

summary.authors
#=> ["Ken Mazaika"]

summary.article_html
#=>
# <div><div><p id=\"3476\"><strong><em>Background: </em></strong><em>I’ve spent...
# ...
# ...button!</em></h3></div></div>

summary.article_text
#=>
# Background: I’ve spent the past 6 years building web applications in Ruby and.....
# ...
# ... value in this article, it would mean a lot to me if you hit the recommend button!

### Extract the title.
Readability.title(html)

### Extract the published at
Readability.published_at(html)

### Extract authors.
Readability.authors(html)

### Extract the primary content with transformed html.
html
|> Readability.article
|> Readability.readable_html

### Extract only text from the primary content.
html
|> Readability.article
|> Readability.readable_text

### you can extract the primary images with Floki
html
|> Readability.article
|> Floki.find("img")
|> Floki.attribute("src")

If the result is different from your expectations, you can add options to customize it.

url = "https://medium.com/@kenmazaika/why-im-betting-on-elixir-7c8f847b58"
summary = Readability.summarize(url, [clean_conditionally: false])

• :min_text_length \\ 25
• :remove_unlikely_candidates \\ true
• :weight_classes \\ true
• :clean_conditionally \\ true
• :retry_length \\ 250

You can find other algorithm and regex options in readability.ex

To run the test suite:

$ mix test

• Extract authors
• More configurable
• Summarize function
• Convert relative paths into absolute paths of img#src and a#href

Check out the main features milestone and features of related projects below

Contributing

1. Fork the repo on GitHub
2. Clone the project to your own machine
3. Commit changes to your own branch
4. Push your work back up to your fork
5. Submit a Pull request so that we can review your changes

NOTE: Be sure to merge the latest from "upstream" before making a pull request!

• readability.js is a standalone version of the readability library used for Firefox Reader View.
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• ruby-readability is a tool for extracting the primary readable content of a webpage.

Copyright (c) 2016 Jaehyun Shin

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