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A standalone version of the readability lib

68 mentions on Hacker News by 64 people: 7 stories, 61 comments · first 2015-02-24 · latest 2026-04-12

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  1. If you have examples of sites where Firefox's reading mode doesn't work, you can file bugs here: https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by 43920 · 2019-11-27 · in Ask HN: What can Firefox do to get you to make the switch?
  2. …reader mode[1], and it worked well: [0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/readability-wrapper [1] https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by franey · 2019-10-31 · in Ebola Is Now a Disease We Can Treat
  3. …about Safari's reader mode, but you can have a look how the readability feature in Firefox works: https://github.com/mozilla/readability I'd expect the Safari feature to work quite similar.
    comment by pvorb · 2019-08-03 · in Ask HN: How can we destroy AMP?
  4. …which is what is used by Firefox's reader mode. https://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by thekyle · 2019-07-28 · in Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
  5. Firefox's reader's view is able to do that. Check out their Github repo here - https://github.com/mozilla/readability >You need at least one <p> tag around the text, you want to see in Reader View and at least 516 characters in 7 words…
    comment by harias · 2019-07-28 · in Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
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    Readability.js: standalone version of the library used for Firefox Reader View
    story by homarp · 2019-01-22 · 0 comments
  7. Firefox uses Readability.js for its reader mode https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by thangngoc89 · 2019-01-22 · in Show HN: Convert article in current tab to readable form and upload it to IPFS
  8. …javascript - Once it's pulled down, clean it up using open source code such as readability https://github.com/mozilla/readability - Store that result as a document in a nosql database Once they have pulled the article down once they don't…
    comment by brad0 · 2018-11-06 · in Ask HN: How does outline.com work?
  9. https://github.com/mozilla/readability (that powers Firefox's reading mode) https://github.com/buriy/python-readability https://github.com/goose3/goose3 https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper For a complete solution, you can also look at…
    comment by heinrichf · 2018-08-12 · in Pocket’s 30M Users Are Great for Publishers
  10. https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by david_ar · 2018-07-17 · in Instapaper is going independent
  11. …a reference for Reliability? Is there source? -I don't know how the FF reader mode is coded- Edit-- https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by hammerandtongs · 2018-02-06 · in Launch HN: Supermedium (YC W18) – A full VR browser for web-based VR content
  12. …(this is what's behind Firefox's reading mode). So, the only semi-difficult part is the NLP. [0] https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by r3bl · 2017-04-26 · in Buku v3.0 – Command Line Bookmark Manager
  13. …I believe it is a bug. BTW, I think this bug covers the issue (it's where I got the WP link from): https://github.com/mozilla/readability/issues/219 Edit: Actually, this is a better bug report: https://github.com/mozilla/readability/issues/…
    comment by criddell · 2016-11-15 · in Firefox 50.0
  14. Firefox maintains a fork of Readability for Firefox's reader mode here: https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by cpeterso · 2016-08-23 · in Instapaper is joining Pinterest
  15. Not exactly, though inspired/reacting to that approach. The reader view is based on this: https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by ianbicking · 2016-07-09 · in Mozilla Fathom: Find meaning in the web
  16. It's using this code: https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/master/Readabili... which is a descendant of the original Readability.js published by Arc90, before they decided to turn it into a proprietary Instapaper clone. It extracts…
    comment by mintplant · 2016-02-27 · in After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher server is back
  17. Firefox's reader mode is JS library that parses the page. It does not share any code with Pocket. https://github.com/mozilla/readability
    comment by kbrosnan · 2015-09-04 · in Firefox for iOS Now Available for Preview in New Zealand
  18. We've put the source we're using up on github ( https://github.com/mozilla/readability ) and plan to use the same library on all platforms. Any contributions are welcome.
    comment by clarkbw · 2015-02-24 · in Firefox 36.0 released