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mozilla/readability

A standalone version of the readability lib observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/mozilla/readability · JavaScript · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

75/100

  • Activity 95
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

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: 4229
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 30
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

11410 stars · 728 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Mozilla's standalone Readability library that extracts the main article content, title, and metadata from HTML documents, powering Firefox Reader View. It works in browsers or Node.js with an external DOM library.

Use cases

  • extract main article content from a web page
  • build a reader mode like Firefox Reader View
  • strip clutter from HTML for text extraction
  • parse article title and metadata from a URL
  • clean web pages for downstream NLP processing
  • scrape readable content in Node.js

When to choose

  • you need reliable, battle-tested article extraction used by Firefox
  • you want a small standalone library with no heavy dependencies
  • you need both browser and Node.js support

When to avoid

  • you need to render JavaScript-heavy pages (use a headless browser first)
  • you need full-page scraping of multiple elements rather than the main article
  • you need a non-JavaScript environment

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser nlp web-scraping web-development developer-tools browser readability article-extraction reader-view html-parsing content-extraction natural-language-processing nodejs javascript

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
mozilla/readabilitymain75

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