Readability

Readability is a tool for extracting and curating the primary readable content of a webpage.
Check out The Documentation for full and detailed guides

Installation

If available in Hex, the package can be installed as:

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

```elixir
def deps do
  [{:readability, "~> 0.3"}]
end
```

2. Ensure readability is started before your application:

```elixir
def application do
  [applications: [:readability]]
end
```

Usage

The example below, html variable is the html source from blog content "Elixir Design Goals".

Examples

### Extract the title
Readability.title(html)
#=> Elixir Design Goals

### Extract the content with transformed html.
html
|> Readability.article
|> Readability.raw_html
#=>
# <div><div class=\"entry-content\"><p>During the last year,
# ...
# ... out our sidebar for other learning resources.</p></div></div>

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

#=>
# During the last year, we have spoken at many conferences spreading the word about Elixir. We usually s.....
# ...
# ... started guide, or check out our sidebar for other learning resources.

Options

You may provide options(Keyword type) to Readability.article, including:

• retry_length \\ 250
• min_text_length \\ 25
• remove_unlikely_candidates \\ true,
• weight_classes \\ true,
• clean_conditionally \\ true,
• remove_empty_nodes \\ true,

Test

To run the test suite:

$ mix test

Todo

• Extract authors
• Extract Images
• Extract Videos
• Convert relative paths into absolute paths of img#src and a#href
• More configurable
• Command line interface

Related and Inpired Projects

• readability.js is a standalone version of the readability library used for Firefox Reader View.
• newspaper is an advanced news extraction, article extraction, and content curation library for Python.
• ruby-readability is a tool for extracting the primary readable content of a webpage.

LICENSE

This code is under the Apache License 2.0. See http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.