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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

missing sections on rfc-editor.org/rfc Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#904 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 21, 2024
The negative regex used for class weight calculation may remove content nodes Open

maintenance parsing-issue reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#903 · Opened Aug 16, 2024
Hero image removed on some (but not all) bbc.com articles Open

has-website-testcase images parsing-issue top-website-issue

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

mozilla/readability#900 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 3, 2024
Fetch multipage articles Open

feature-request

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

mozilla/readability#897 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 25, 2024
JW player hidden accessibility data is displayed Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue video

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

mozilla/readability#895 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 12, 2024
No separators or title headers for separation between articles in a Wordpress "full contents" index page Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#888 · Opened Jun 29, 2024
`isProbablyReaderable` returns true on a unreadable page Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues should-not-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#887 · Opened Jun 29, 2024
apnews.com - "What to know" block in the middle of articles Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#879 · Opened Jun 16, 2024
Readability mode drops hyperlinked paragraph Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#878 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 11, 2024
nature article do not process correctly Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#877 · Opened Jun 11, 2024
Phrasing elements - incomplete list Open

maintenance parsing-issue reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#875 · 1 comment · Opened May 30, 2024
Conflict with package versions Open

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

mozilla/readability#873 · 1 comment · Opened May 25, 2024
The Luddite articles aren't readerable Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#864 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 29, 2024
H1 is converted into H2? Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue

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

mozilla/readability#863 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 26, 2024
Incomplete rendering of page in reading mode Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#860 · Opened Apr 11, 2024
Problem handling invalid HTML attributes Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#859 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2024
Feature: Callback like `onRemoveNode` before a node is being removed Open

feature-request

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

mozilla/readability#856 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 4, 2024
H1 Headers ignored/skipped on https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-rootclaim Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#855 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 29, 2024
Paragraph is ignored on https://oejaj.cfwb.be accessibility statement page Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#854 · Opened Mar 28, 2024
The Montreal Gazette's secondary navbar menu shows up as a list in Reader mode Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#852 · Opened Mar 18, 2024
Discrepancy between firefox reader mode to readability library. Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#851 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2024
Some of the lazy loaded images in "The Conversation" are not shown unless the whole article has been scrolled before entering reader view Open

has-website-testcase images possibly-ffx-related

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

mozilla/readability#850 · Opened Mar 14, 2024
BBC News articles aren't readerable Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue should-be-readerable top-website-issue

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

mozilla/readability#849 · Opened Mar 12, 2024
The verge: first sentence is skipped Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue

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

mozilla/readability#847 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 10, 2024
Add `articleBody` to the metadata when found in the Article Schema Markup Open

metadata not-ffx-reader-view parsing-issue

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

mozilla/readability#846 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 1, 2024
too much content cut on europarl.europa.eu Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue

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

mozilla/readability#845 · Opened Feb 26, 2024
Readability doesn't extract the right article for some pages on lgbtqnation.com Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#844 · Opened Feb 26, 2024
any idea why it can't parse this page's job description? Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue

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

mozilla/readability#842 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 17, 2024
tagName is case-sensitive in XHTML docs Open

parsing-issue reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#840 · Opened Feb 7, 2024
Over focusing on a pre-formatted code block Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#839 · Opened Jan 29, 2024
About clipping tables in web pages Open

not-ffx-reader-view

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

mozilla/readability#838 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 28, 2024
Can we get a list of images in the article as part of the json response? Open

feature-request images metadata

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

mozilla/readability#834 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 14, 2024
Text attached to the input form displayed Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue

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

mozilla/readability#832 · Opened Jan 11, 2024
bug: <ul> element removed, yet children <li> are preserved, resulting in broken markup Open

has-website-testcase not-ffx-reader-view parsing-issue

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

mozilla/readability#830 · Opened Dec 16, 2023
YouTube videos not being extracted. Open

video

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

mozilla/readability#822 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 29, 2023
Missing section titles from substack.com Open

has-website-testcase parsing-issue

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

mozilla/readability#821 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 27, 2023
Not all HTML Entities are unescaped from title and other metadata (when double-escaped by websites) Open

has-website-testcase metadata

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

mozilla/readability#820 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 24, 2023
Reader mode cuts off the main content Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#819 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 2, 2023
bleepingcomputer issue from ad content cnx-player-wrapper Open

has-website-testcase possibly-ffx-related

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

mozilla/readability#810 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2023
fitchratings.com article pages display unformatted lists of currencies instead Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#809 · Opened Aug 10, 2023
Main article content at guykawasaki.com stripped Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#808 · Opened Jul 20, 2023
Articles on nypost.com sometimes display privacy / cookie warnings instead of article content (depends on scroll position) Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#806 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 23, 2023
Articles on Macrumors.com display privacy / cookie warnings instead of article content Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#805 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2023
European commission news do not display the reader view Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#800 · Opened May 1, 2023
H2 with strong inside is being eaten... Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#799 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 28, 2023
Reader mode cuts off last 11 paragraphs of "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" on newyorker.com Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#784 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2023
Text content depends on whitespace in source HTML Open

has-website-testcase

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

mozilla/readability#779 · 3 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jan 7, 2023
Custom output formats Open

feature-request

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

mozilla/readability#777 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2023
Missing paragraphs for spiegel.de article Open

has-website-testcase top-website-issue

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

mozilla/readability#776 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 25, 2022
`<table>` tag can be mistakenly trimmed Open

has-website-testcase reader-mode-has-issues should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#775 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2022

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