readability-scrape

readability-scrape is a command line tool to download simplified versions of webpages. Unlike similar tools, it imports Readability.js, the library used in Firefox's reader view, directly from Mozilla's repository so that it will be more up-to-date.

Installation

readability-scrape is available via npm:

npm install -g readability-scrape

Usage

Pass in the URL of a webpage to retrieve it as plain text:

readability-scrape https://example.com/path

Use the --html option to get simplified HTML output:

readability-scrape --html https://example.com/path

Use --json to get Readability's full output as JSON:

readability-scrape --json https://example.com/path

The JSON output will contain at least these properties:

• uri: original uri object that was passed to constructor
• title: article title
• content: HTML string of processed article content
• textContent: Processed article content as plain text
• length: length of article, in characters
• excerpt: article description, or short excerpt from content
• byline: author metadata
• dir: content direction