Ruby Readability Command line: (sudo) gem install ruby-readability Bundler: gem "ruby-readability", :require => 'readability' Example: require 'rubygems' require 'readability' require 'open-uri' source = open('http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/').read puts Readability::Document.new(source).content There is also a command-line tool for testing readability in bin/readability. Usage: readability [options] URL -d, --debug Show debug output -i, --images Keep images and links -h, --help Show this message === This code is under the Apache License 2.0. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 This is a ruby port of arc90's readability project http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ Given a html document, it pulls out the main body text and cleans it up. Ruby port by starrhorne, libc, and iterationlabs. Original gemification by fizx.