Mozilla's Readability.js

A standalone version of the readability library used for Firefox Reader View.

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To parse a document, you must create a new Readability object from a document object, and then call parse(). Here’s an example:

var article = new Readability(document).parse();

This article object will contain the following properties:

• title: article title
• content: HTML string of processed article content
• length: length of an article, in characters
• excerpt: article description, or short excerpt from the content
• byline: author metadata
• dir: content direction

If you’re using Readability on the web, you will likely be able to use a document reference from elsewhere (e.g. fetched via XMLHttpRequest, in a same-origin <iframe> you have access to, etc.).