mozilla/readability

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A standalone version of the readability lib

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Dominant language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Jul 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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297 open issues indexed

seekingalpha.com - Reverts back to normal when enabling reader mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

mozilla/readability#1031 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
macworld.com rendering problems Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mozilla/readability#1029 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
JSDOMParser: Element is missing a lang accessor Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 76/100

mozilla/readability#1026 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Reader View Fails on https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetophon-laugh-track Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

mozilla/readability#1024 · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Reader View Omits "Basic Information" and "Quick Answers" on Fandom Pages Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#1021 · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Does not work on blog posts at www.thedroptimes.com. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mozilla/readability#1020 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
www.archives.gov - "Transcript" section is not displayed in reader mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mozilla/readability#1019 · Opened Jul 15, 2026
understandingwar.org shows end notes instead of main body Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mozilla/readability#1016 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
knowablemagazine.org - Does not show the article, republish message displayed after enabling reader mode Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mozilla/readability#1012 · Opened Jun 19, 2026
BBC news articles not containing full article body Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mozilla/readability#1005 · Opened Mar 15, 2026
cybersport.ru - missing content in <article> after h2 tag Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mozilla/readability#1003 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 8, 2026
Add options to set max title length or false not to limit at all Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#1002 · Opened Feb 16, 2026
Part of the headings missing from Claude Docs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mozilla/readability#999 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 10, 2026
[bug] Single word Wikipedia headers are removed while multiple words are parsed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

mozilla/readability#998 · Opened Dec 28, 2025
PHRASING_ELEMS missing <u>, <s>, and <bdi> elements causes paragraph splitting Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

mozilla/readability#997 · Opened Dec 20, 2025
Wikipedia output includes multiple empty bullets/lines Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#995 · Opened Dec 4, 2025
Does not include answer on dba.stackexchange.com Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues top-website-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#992 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 23, 2025
Part of MDN article cut out by reader mode Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#991 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 23, 2025
Cannot read properties of null (reading 'tagName') when using happy-dom Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#988 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2025
Wikipedia's h2s aren't included. Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues top-website-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#986 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 22, 2025
Reader mode on Royal Road stories shows CSS-hidden messages Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#984 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 15, 2025
Output doesn't match Firefox Reader View Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mozilla/readability#983 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2025
Trailing slash added to urls in href when using linkedom Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mozilla/readability#980 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 4, 2025
too slow parse Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mozilla/readability#977 · Opened Jul 27, 2025
GitHub issue not processed properly with readability Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

mozilla/readability#972 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 13, 2025
Reader mode button doesn't show up on Plus Minus articles on rp.pl Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mozilla/readability#970 · 1 comment · Opened May 12, 2025
Proposal: make Readability understand Mastodon posts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

mozilla/readability#968 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 3, 2025
Anchor permalinks display issues Open

has-website-testcase images reader-mode-has-issues

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#965 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 7, 2025
Page is computed as "probably readerable" but parsing results in no content Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#964 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 7, 2025
Readability strips out too much HTML, breaking anchor links Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#963 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 3, 2025
Add a baseURI option to resolve to arbitrary absolute URLs Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#961 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2025
Preserve videos in paragraphs Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#957 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2025
First part of article is missing from Reader View: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-generative-ai-bias/ Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues top-website-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mozilla/readability#955 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 19, 2025
Missing first article's section for decolonizepalestine.com/myth/a-land-... Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

mozilla/readability#948 · Opened Jan 10, 2025
BUG: Missing data from `cedardb.com/blog` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#946 · Opened Jan 4, 2025
BUG: Footnotes are not displayed in any blog powered by `mataroa.blog` Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

mozilla/readability#945 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2025
Improper parsing of text on Reuters - two paragraphs in the result instead of one Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#931 · Opened Dec 22, 2024
Hidden text passed to Readablity Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#930 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 22, 2024
Article on substack skips the headings Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#928 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 17, 2024
MSN article returns NULL due to (at least) not recursing into open shadowRoots Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues top-website-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#926 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 7, 2024
Firefox Reader View discards parts of the website Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

mozilla/readability#925 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 24, 2024
Save all the images, not just the first one Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#924 · Opened Nov 20, 2024
ASCII RFC headers, footers & pagination not removed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#923 · Opened Nov 18, 2024
Content with normal paragraphs being ignored by reader mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#922 · Opened Nov 6, 2024
Hopefully the minimum string length is configurable. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#920 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 31, 2024
Gift modal appears in reader mode output for lemonde.fr articles Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues top-website-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#919 · Opened Oct 29, 2024
missing listitem Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#916 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 12, 2024
Images are not shown on some sites (including wired.com) in reader view Open

has-website-testcase images reader-mode-has-issues top-website-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#912 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 30, 2024
Missing sections of gfi.org page Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue reader-mode-has-issues

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

mozilla/readability#911 · Opened Sep 26, 2024
Toronto Star articles don't work with Reader Mode in Firefox Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue reader-mode-has-issues

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

mozilla/readability#909 · Opened Sep 16, 2024

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