# ageitgey/node-unfluff

Automatically extract body content (and other cool stuff) from an html document

Repository: https://github.com/ageitgey/node-unfluff
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-unfluff
Language: HTML
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-05-26T18:52:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4447, "days_push": 1195, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2158, forks 210 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:19.834399+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js library and CLI tool that automatically extracts the main body content and metadata (title, author, date, images, tags, links) from HTML web pages, based on python-goose. It turns cluttered webpages into clean plain text or JSON data.

## Use cases
- extract main article text from a webpage html
- build machine learning datasets from web pages
- get article metadata like author and publish date from html
- strip ads and navigation from web pages to get clean text
- build an Instapaper-style read-it-later app
- extract embedded videos and images from articles from the command line

## When to choose
- you need to extract readable article content from raw HTML in Node.js
- you want a CLI to quickly pull main text and metadata from web pages
- you're building datasets or text-processing pipelines from web content

## When to avoid
- you need a Python or JVM content extractor (use python-goose or goose instead)
- you need actively maintained scraping with modern site support
- you want to scrape pages requiring JavaScript rendering

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: parser, web-scraping, nlp
- domain: web-development, crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: content-extraction, readability, html-parsing, article-extraction, metadata-extraction, natural-language-processing, nodejs

## Member repositories
- ageitgey/node-unfluff (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:19.834399+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:50:21.849141+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ageitgey/node-unfluff (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:19.834399+00:00, sha 7e3b6c6173fd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.