Readability4J

A Kotlin port of Mozilla‘s Readability. It extracts a website‘s relevant content and removes all clutter from it. (by dankito)

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  • Creating an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2023
    Depending upon the type of content, one might want to look into using the Readability (Browder's reader view) to parse the webpage. It will give you all the useful info without the junk. Then you can put it in the DB as needed.

    https://github.com/mozilla/readability

    Btw, readability, is also available in few other languages like Kotlin:

    https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

  • How does Firefox's Reader View work?
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2022
    My Hacker News client HACK for iOS and Android has a reader mode ability browser. While on iOS, I was able to use the reader mode feature provided by SFSafariViewController, that wasn't available on android.

    So I had to read a ton about this. I ended up using a heavily modified Kotlin version of Readability:

    https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1464477788

  • Show HN: Instantly Listen to Any URL
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2021
    Not sure about OP but I just implemented this in my Hacker News android client (thanks for the idea OP).

    This is how I implemented it. I had already achieved article to "reader mode" by heavily customizing the Kotlin port of Mozilla‘s Readability:

    https://github.com/dankito/Readability4J

    Then I pass the text via Android's TextToSpeech library and it works very well:

        fun trySpeaking(str:String){
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