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

How to allow extracting YouTube videos or <iframe> tags? Open

has-website-testcase top-website-issue video

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

mozilla/readability#675 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 25, 2021
Reader cuts off article on hollywoodreporter.com before ad Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#674 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 23, 2021
Images in medium / qvault article don't get included Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#670 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 15, 2021
Readability removed real content impropeerly Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#669 · Opened Feb 4, 2021
`<font>` tags transformed into `<span>` still change inner `<br>` to `<p>` tags, causing text to break in unexpected places Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#665 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 25, 2020
Reader View displays only about half of the article on the New Yorker (broken up by horizontal banner ads) Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#660 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2020
Recognize `data-src` and `data-srcset` attributes even if the URL do not use image extensions Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#657 · 9 comments · Opened Dec 14, 2020
div id="preamble" dropped from reader mode for article on plato.stanford.edu Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#655 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 8, 2020
Reader cuts off article on technologyreview.com before embedded tweet Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#653 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 7, 2020
Excerpt detection sometimes picks irrelevant first paragraph Open

has-website-testcase metadata

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

mozilla/readability#651 · Opened Nov 23, 2020
JSDOMparser fails to parse nymag.com due to bogus XML cdata serialization inside a script tag Open

maintenance

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

mozilla/readability#649 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2020
Reader View constantly pulls up the same wrong article on sg.yahoo.com Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#648 · Opened Nov 18, 2020
Content mixed up on page with multiple articles Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#632 · Opened Oct 22, 2020
Readability is not reliably detected on royalroad.com Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#628 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 9, 2020
Reader mode does not include codemirror code samples from kotlinlang.org Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#626 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 2, 2020
threadreaderapp.com threads are not detected as readerable (plain divs without <br> or <p> tags) Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#624 · Opened Sep 28, 2020
The reader view of this springer article only contains the references Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#622 · Opened Sep 18, 2020
Reader Mode can't convert page with 2-column table to 1-column page Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#621 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2020
Headings and dds missing from Google SRE book website Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#615 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2020
Form labels are not left out when form input elements are removed Open

has-website-testcase possibly-ffx-related reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#613 · Opened Aug 20, 2020
Best Buy Recycling Information site only shows State-specific recycling information in Reader Mode Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#610 · Opened Aug 10, 2020
Readability fails to keep body of content from major article Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#603 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 15, 2020
github.com markdown files not detected as readerable Open

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

mozilla/readability#600 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 30, 2020
Images on medium.com appear twice Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#599 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 29, 2020
Side-by-side column with images not included in reader view of touhouwiki.net pages Open

reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#598 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 18, 2020
Articles on dilemaveche.ro not being detected as readerable Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#597 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 14, 2020
h2 headings not appearing in reader mode for nymag.com Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#594 · Opened May 17, 2020
[FR] Add a sample node script with the required security considerations Open

maintenance

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

mozilla/readability#593 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 16, 2020
Images and multiple paragraphs of content missing from buzzfeed pages in reader view Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#584 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 23, 2020
Reader picks only first paragraph on engadget article Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#582 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 8, 2020
readability picks comments rather than main article text on some pages on krone.at Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#577 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 13, 2020
Mozilla blog post hero image not shown in reader mode Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#576 · Opened Jan 24, 2020
Missing beginning paragraphs (www.netbits.us) Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#574 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2020
missing beginning paragraphs (www.politico.com) Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#571 · Opened Dec 30, 2019
Stackoverflow author/byline information should only contain username Open

has-website-testcase metadata

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

mozilla/readability#570 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 21, 2019
bizjournals.com articles aren't registered as reader-able Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#569 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 19, 2019
Table not read properly from sheldownbrown.com Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#568 · Opened Oct 26, 2019
Github.com pages: "Failed to load article from page" Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#567 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 21, 2019
missing paragraph (emacspeak.blogspot.com) Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#563 · Opened Oct 18, 2019
Remove Font Awesome icons Open

images

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

mozilla/readability#556 · Opened Aug 30, 2019
Reader View fails on snorl.ax Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#550 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2019
Reader view omits <h2> with description on ntv.ru Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#548 · Opened May 30, 2019
Readability fails when top candidate is not a child of <body> element Open

reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#546 · 3 comments · Opened May 23, 2019
New York Times article stops at "Show Full Article" Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#543 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 11, 2019
New York Times glossary spans should be removed from reader mode Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#540 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 18, 2019
Half way (?) on fixing readability for StackExchanges pages Open

maintenance

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

mozilla/readability#539 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 17, 2019
Breaks formatting and syntax highlighting on embedded code blocks Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#532 · 15 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Mar 14, 2019
Reader View fail: worldwide101.com blog Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#524 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 26, 2019
Evaluate adopting some fixes/techniques from Mercury Parser Open

maintenance

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

mozilla/readability#515 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2019
only some images loaded in a Discourse forum post Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#510 · Opened Jan 8, 2019

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