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A standalone version of the readability lib

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Forks: 732
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Indexed issues: 297

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

Reader mode button doesn't appear on Project Zero blogspot post Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#503 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 20, 2018
Some quora.com pages do not pass isProbablyReaderable (don't show reader mode button in Firefox) Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#499 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 2, 2018
Readability mode strips blockquote Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#498 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2018
Bad parses on blick.ch Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#492 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 29, 2018
readability mode does not work on dailymail.co.uk Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#490 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 22, 2018
article content removed Open

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

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

mozilla/readability#489 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 22, 2018
Better handling of `<aside>` content Open

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

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

mozilla/readability#487 · 9 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 22, 2018
srcset attribute and <source> src attribute urls should be replaced with absolute ones Open

images reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#485 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2018
Remove anchor links to #comments Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#479 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2018
embeds are removed Open

reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#476 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2018
Upworthy.com's article not found Open

reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#474 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2018
Wrong article is displayed in the reader view Open

reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#473 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2018
Standalone version strips some parts compared to the Firefox version Open

reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#472 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2018
Hackernoon.com article misses paragraphs Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#470 · Opened Jul 13, 2018
Footer is too often included on non-English websites Open

reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#468 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2018
Copy IDs (and preserved classes) across when eliminating single-child container elements Open

reader-mode-has-issues

Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 50/100

mozilla/readability#460 · Opened Jun 9, 2018
Invalid HTML in test cases Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#451 · 2 comments · Opened May 17, 2018
Improvement to the `isProbablyReaderable` heuristic for Japanese websites Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

mozilla/readability#429 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2018
Image missing on TheVerge article Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#427 · Opened Mar 5, 2018
Hide "edit source" from wikipedia headlines when in Reader View Open

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

mozilla/readability#424 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 27, 2018
CNN.com pages don't get detected Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#420 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 16, 2018
Missing content on article generated with Microsoft FrontPage Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#388 · Opened Aug 12, 2017
Not detected on this blog Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#378 · Opened May 5, 2017
Missing guide on how to test Readability on random pages Open

maintenance

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

mozilla/readability#375 · 7 reactions · Opened Apr 12, 2017
very short <pre> sections are skipped in reader mode Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#374 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 12, 2017
Should get the correct byline on WordPress blogs Open

metadata reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#371 · Opened Mar 15, 2017
Should strip "教育频道_中国青年网" at end of the title Open

has-website-testcase metadata

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

mozilla/readability#369 · Opened Mar 13, 2017
Should strip "_探索者 _光明网" at end of the title Open

has-website-testcase metadata

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mozilla/readability#366 · Opened Mar 10, 2017
Should get correct byline on yahoo.co.jp Open

metadata reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#364 · Opened Mar 10, 2017
Should strip "Yahoo!..." at end of the title Open

has-website-testcase metadata

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

mozilla/readability#363 · Opened Mar 10, 2017
Remove elements unused attributes in readability result Open

maintenance

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

mozilla/readability#359 · Opened Mar 1, 2017
Use the unicode ellipsis character instead of 3 periods Open

maintenance reader-mode-has-issues

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

mozilla/readability#355 · Opened Feb 22, 2017
Add new eslint rules and clean up the code Open

maintenance

mozilla/readability#351 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 9, 2017
Allow JSDOMParser to be loaded as a "proper" CommonJS module Open

maintenance

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

mozilla/readability#346 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2017
Remove `<img>` elements with no `src` attribute before removing their containers Open

maintenance reader-mode-has-issues

mozilla/readability#344 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 21, 2017
Reduce down singly nested containers when returning final content from the readability algorithm Open

maintenance reader-mode-has-issues

mozilla/readability#343 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 21, 2017
Problem with Reader View on www.dw.com website Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#307 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2016
The most visited Bulgarian reading websites (Chitanka.info and Slovo.bg) should be readerable Open

should-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#306 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 11, 2016
Images missing from medium.com articles Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#299 · 13 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Jul 14, 2016
Pager links are stripped out on faz.net Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#296 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 20, 2016
Reader mode unavailable for Italian news website Open

should-be-readerable top-website-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

mozilla/readability#294 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 1, 2016
Reader mode unavailable on mobile version of economictimes.com Open

should-be-readerable top-website-issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mozilla/readability#293 · Opened May 31, 2016
reader-mode-button visibility in https://developer.mozilla.org/<lang>/firefox Open

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

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mozilla/readability#290 · 1 comment · Opened May 6, 2016
Reader mode not proposed for site dhnet.be Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#279 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2016
How can I get Content readability score in response? Open

maintenance

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

mozilla/readability#266 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 15, 2016
Missing content (crosscite.org) Open

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

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mozilla/readability#263 · Opened Jan 29, 2016
Bad readability detection on aircanada.com Open

should-not-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#243 · Opened Aug 18, 2015
Missing content on some llvm.org documentation pages Open

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

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

mozilla/readability#242 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2015
Reader View works poorly on biostars.org Open

should-not-be-readerable

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

mozilla/readability#236 · Opened Jul 14, 2015
Make phpBB2 Boards viewable in Reader Open

has-website-testcase should-be-readerable

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

mozilla/readability#233 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2015

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