Readability

🚨 This is a fork of a (from what I can tell) currently unmaintained hex package

Installation

Add this fork to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:readability, git: "https://github.com/willrax/readability.git"}]
end

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 a url

url = "https://medium.com/@kenmazaika/why-im-betting-on-elixir-7c8f847b58"
{:ok, 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 the result is different from your expectations, you can add options to customize it.

Example

url = "https://medium.com/@kenmazaika/why-im-betting-on-elixir-7c8f847b58"
{:ok, 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

Contributing

Fork the repo on GitHub
Clone the project to your own machine
Commit changes to your own branch
Push your work back up to your fork
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!

Related and Inspired 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.

willrax / readability