A way to use mozilla readability with node. Inspired by readability-node which was unmaintained
Use readability from Mozilla in node software.
Here is the Mozilla readability repo
Here is the package I used to build moz-readability-node. The 2 lines of code are exactly the same but with the Readability.js files updated to use the last version of Mozilla. This commit
A standalone version of the readability library used for Firefox Reader View. Any changes to Readability.js itself should be reviewed by an appropriate Firefox/toolkit peer, such as @leibovic or @thebnich, since these changes will be automatically merged to mozilla-central.
To parse a document, you must create a new Readability object from a document object, and then call parse(). Here's an example:
``javascript`
var article = new Readability(document).parse();
This article object will contain the following properties:
* title: article titlecontent
* : HTML string of processed article contentlength
* : length of article, in charactersexcerpt
* : article description, or short excerpt from contentbyline
* : author metadatadir
* : content direction
If you're using Readability on the web, you will likely be able to use a document reference from elsewhere (e.g. fetched via XMLHttpRequest, in a same-origin
Readability's parse() works by modifying the DOM. This removes some elements in the web page. You could avoid this by passing the clone of the document object while creating a Readability object.
```
var documentClone = document.cloneNode(true);
var article = new Readability(documentClone).parse();
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