An Elixir library for extracting and curating the primary readable content from webpages.
Readability is an Elixir library that extracts and curates the main readable content from webpages by stripping away non-essential elements like ads and navigation bars. It programmatically obtains clean article text, titles, authors, and publication dates, making it useful for content aggregation, archiving, and readability enhancement. The library supports both URL and raw HTML input, offering configurable algorithms for fine-tuning extraction results.
Elixir developers building applications that require clean content extraction from webpages, such as content aggregators, archiving tools, or readability enhancement services. It is also suitable for developers needing to parse article metadata (titles, authors, dates) from HTML in Elixir-based projects.
Developers choose Readability for its reliability and configurability within the Elixir ecosystem, inspired by Mozilla's readability.js. It provides a simple, focused API for extracting primary content and metadata, with customizable options like `min_text_length` and `clean_conditionally` to adapt to different webpage structures.
Readability is Elixir library for extracting and curating articles.
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Works directly with URLs or raw HTML, simplifying integration by eliminating the need for separate HTTP fetching in many cases.
Offers customizable options like min_text_length and clean_conditionally, allowing fine-tuning for different webpage structures, as detailed in the README.
Parses and extracts article titles, authors, and publication dates in addition to content, providing a complete package for aggregation tasks.
Provides both HTML and plain-text versions of extracted articles, enabling flexible use in various contexts, such as archiving or text analysis.
The library's todo list admits it doesn't convert relative paths to absolute for images and links, which can break content display in archiving or rendering scenarios.
Extraction may fail on complex or non-standard sites, forcing developers to tweak parameters based on the README's options, adding overhead and trial-and-error.
Cannot handle JavaScript-rendered content, making it unsuitable for modern web apps without pre-rendering, which isn't built-in and requires additional setup.