react-native-readability

React Native compatible readability

A layer on top of the Mozilla Readability module using react-native compatible modules. This module attempts to first clean the HTML of broken elements and tags before extracting the clean HTML.

Installation

npm install react-native-readability --save

Usage example

import readability from 'react-native-readability';

const url = 'http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42942921';

return fetch(url)
  .then((response) => response.text())
  .then((responseData) => readability.cleanHtml(responseData, url))
  .then((cleanHtml) => {
    console.log(cleanHtml.content);
    console.log(cleanHtml.title);
  });

Clean HTML model

{
  byline: '',   // Author (if found)
  content: '',  // Clean HTML
  excerpt: '',  // Short description of HTML
  length: 0,    // Byte length of clean HTML
  title: '',    // Title of web page
}

Development setup

Clone this project from GitHub

npm install
npm test

Bugs / feature requests

If you find any bugs or have a feature request, please create an issue in GitHub.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/jameslawler/react-native-readability)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request

License

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.