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:

def deps do
  [{:readability, "~> 0.9"}]
end

2. Ensure readability is started before your application:

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

Note: Readability requires Elixir 1.3 or higher.

Usage

Examples

Just pass url

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

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

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!

From raw html

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

Options

If result is different with your expectation, you can add options.

Example

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

Test

To run the test suite:

$ mix test

Todo

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

Contributions are welcome!

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

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.