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Go-Readability
Go-Readability is a Go package that find the main readable content and the metadata from a HTML page. It works by removing clutter like buttons, ads, background images, script, etc.
This package is based from Readability.js by Mozilla, and written line by line to make sure it looks and works as similar as possible. This way, hopefully all web page that can be parsed by Readability.js are parse-able by go-readability as well.
Status
This package is stable enough for use and up to date with Readability.js until commit 290724c.
Installation
To install this package, just run go get :
go get -u -v github.com/ashishb/go-readability
Example
To get the readable content from an URL, you can use readability.FromURL. It will fetch the web page from specified url, check if it's readable, then parses the response to find the readable content :
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"os"
"time"
readability "github.com/ashishb/go-readability"
)
var (
urls = []string{
// this one is article, so it's parse-able
"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/climate/climate-national-security-threat.html",
// while this one is not an article, so readability will fail to parse.
"https://www.nytimes.com/",
}
)
func main() {
for i, url := range urls {
article, err := readability.FromURL(url, 30*time.Second)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("failed to parse %s, %v\n", url, err)
}
dstTxtFile, _ := os.Create(fmt.Sprintf("text-%02d.txt", i+1))
defer dstTxtFile.Close()
dstTxtFile.WriteString(article.TextContent)
dstHTMLFile, _ := os.Create(fmt.Sprintf("html-%02d.html", i+1))
defer dstHTMLFile.Close()
dstHTMLFile.WriteString(article.Content)
fmt.Printf("URL : %s\n", url)
fmt.Printf("Title : %s\n", article.Title)
fmt.Printf("Author : %s\n", article.Byline)
fmt.Printf("Length : %d\n", article.Length)
fmt.Printf("Excerpt : %s\n", article.Excerpt)
fmt.Printf("SiteName: %s\n", article.SiteName)
fmt.Printf("Image : %s\n", article.Image)
fmt.Printf("Favicon : %s\n", article.Favicon)
fmt.Printf("Text content saved to \"text-%02d.txt\"\n", i+1)
fmt.Printf("HTML content saved to \"html-%02d.html\"\n", i+1)
fmt.Println()
}
}
However, sometimes you want to parse an URL no matter if it's an article or not. For example is when you only want to get metadata of the page. To do that, you have to download the page manually using http.Get, then parse it using readability.FromReader :
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
readability "github.com/ashishb/go-readability"
)
var (
urls = []string{
// Both will be parse-able now
"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/climate/climate-national-security-threat.html",
// But this one will not have any content
"https://www.nytimes.com/",
}
)
func main() {
for _, url := range urls {
resp, err := http.Get(url)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("failed to download %s: %v\n", url, err)
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
article, err := readability.FromReader(resp.Body, url)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("failed to parse %s: %v\n", url, err)
}
fmt.Printf("URL : %s\n", url)
fmt.Printf("Title : %s\n", article.Title)
fmt.Printf("Author : %s\n", article.Byline)
fmt.Printf("Length : %d\n", article.Length)
fmt.Printf("Excerpt : %s\n", article.Excerpt)
fmt.Printf("SiteName: %s\n", article.SiteName)
fmt.Printf("Image : %s\n", article.Image)
fmt.Printf("Favicon : %s\n", article.Favicon)
fmt.Println()
}
}
Command Line Usage
You can also use go-readability as command line app. To do that, first install the CLI :
go get -u -v github.com/ashishb/go-readability/cmd/...
Now you can use it by running go-readability in your terminal :
$ go-readability -h
go-readability is parser to fetch the readable content of a web page.
The source can be an url or existing file in your storage.
Usage:
go-readability [flags] source
Flags:
-h, --help help for go-readability
-m, --metadata only print the page's metadata
Licenses
Go-Readability is distributed under MIT license, which means you can use and modify it however you want. However, if you make an enhancement for it, if possible, please send a pull request. If you like this project, please consider donating to me either via PayPal or Ko-Fi.
Documentation
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Overview ¶
Package readability is a Go package that find the main readable content from a HTML page. It works by removing clutter like buttons, ads, background images, script, etc.
This package is based from Readability.js by Mozilla, and written line by line to make sure it looks and works as similar as possible. This way, hopefully all web page that can be parsed by Readability.js are parse-able by go-readability as well.
Index ¶
Constants ¶
This section is empty.
Variables ¶
This section is empty.
Functions ¶
func Check ¶
Check checks whether the input is readable without parsing the whole thing. It's the wrapper for `Parser.Check()` and useful if you only use the default parser.
func CheckDocument ¶
CheckDocument checks whether the document is readable without parsing the whole thing. It's the wrapper for `Parser.CheckDocument()` and useful if you only use the default parser.
Types ¶
type Article ¶
type Article struct {
Title string
Byline string
Node *html.Node
Content string
TextContent string
Length int
Excerpt string
SiteName string
Image string
Favicon string
PublishedTime *time.Time
ModifiedTime *time.Time
}
Article is the final readable content.
func FromDocument ¶
FromDocument parses an document and returns the readable content. It's the wrapper or `Parser.ParseDocument()` and useful if you only want to use the default parser.
func FromReader ¶
FromReader parses an `io.Reader` and returns the readable content. It's the wrapper or `Parser.Parse()` and useful if you only want to use the default parser.
type Parser ¶
type Parser struct {
// MaxElemsToParse is the max number of nodes supported by this
// parser. Default: 0 (no limit)
MaxElemsToParse int
// NTopCandidates is the number of top candidates to consider when
// analysing how tight the competition is among candidates.
NTopCandidates int
// CharThresholds is the default number of chars an article must
// have in order to return a result
CharThresholds int
// ClassesToPreserve are the classes that readability sets itself.
ClassesToPreserve []string
// KeepClasses specify whether the classes should be stripped or not.
KeepClasses bool
// TagsToScore is element tags to score by default.
TagsToScore []string
// Debug determines if the log should be printed or not. Default: false.
Debug bool
// DisableJSONLD determines if metadata in JSON+LD will be extracted
// or not. Default: false.
DisableJSONLD bool
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Parser is the parser that parses the page to get the readable content.
func NewParser ¶
func NewParser() Parser
NewParser returns new Parser which set up with default value.
func (*Parser) CheckDocument ¶
CheckDocument checks whether the document is readable without parsing the whole thing.
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