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kohlschutter/boilerpipe

Work in progress transmit from Google Code observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/kohlschutter/boilerpipe · homepage · Java · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4294
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 3164
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1127 stars · 282 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

boilerpipe is a Java library for removing boilerplate (ads, navigation, headers) from HTML pages and extracting the main full text content. It implements heuristic algorithms for article extraction from web pages.

Use cases

  • extract article text from html pages
  • remove boilerplate from web pages
  • get main content of a news article
  • clean html for text mining
  • extract fulltext from web documents for nlp

When to choose

  • you need proven, fast boilerplate removal in a JVM application
  • you are extracting article text from many web pages for analysis or indexing

When to avoid

  • you need actively maintained software with recent fixes
  • you need a non-JVM language without bindings
  • you need modern JavaScript-rendered page extraction

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

nlp parser web-scraping web-development crawlers jvm cross-platform html-extraction boilerplate-removal content-extraction text-extraction natural-language-processing

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
kohlschutter/boilerpipemain32

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