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# reader-view-cli
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**Firefox Reader View in your terminal!**
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**reader-view-cli** takes any HTML page and strips out unnecessary bloat by using [Mozilla's Readability library](https://github.com/mozilla/readability). As a result, you get a web page which contains only the core content and nothing more. The resulting HTML is suitable for terminal browsers, text readers, or perhaps other use-cases.
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### An example of Reader View in Firefox:
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**Standard view in Firefox**
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![An article from The Guardian with standard view in Firefox](https://i.imgur.com/6xyyShd.png "Standard view in Firefox")
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**Reader View in Firefox**
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![An article from The Guardian with Reader View in Firefox](https://i.imgur.com/V27OUch.png "Reader View in Firefox")
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#### An example of reader-view-cli with W3M browser:
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**Standard view in W3M**
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![An article from The Guardian in W3M](https://i.imgur.com/kAeCfh1.png "Standard view in W3M")
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**reader-view-cli + W3M**
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![An article from The Guardian in W3M using reader-view-cli](https://i.imgur.com/KaSY1JS.png "reader-view-cli with W3M")
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## Usage
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`readable [SOURCE] [options]`
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`readable [options] -- [SOURCE]`
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(where SOURCE is a file, an http(s) URL, or '-' for standard input)
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Options:
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```
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--help Print help
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-o --output OUTPUT_FILE Output to OUTPUT_FILE
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-p --properties PROP1,[PROP2,...] Output specific properties of the parsed article
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-V --version Print version
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-u --url Interpret SOURCE as a URL
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-q --quiet Don't output extra information to stderr
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```
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The --properties option accepts a comma-separated list of values (with no spaces in-between). Suitable values are:
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```
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html-title Outputs the article's title, wrapped in an <h1> tag.
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title Outputs the title in the format "Title: $TITLE".
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excerpt Article description, or short excerpt from the content, in the format "Excerpt: $EXCERPT"
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byline Author metadata, in the format "Author: $AUTHOR"
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length Length of the article in characters, in the format "Length: $LENGTH"
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dir Content direction, is either "Direction: ltr" or "Direction: rtl"
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html-content Outputs the article's main content as HTML.
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text-content Outputs the article's main content as plain text.
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```
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Text-content and Html-content are mutually exclusive, and are always printed last.
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Default value is "html-title,html-content".
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### Usage examples
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**Read HTML from a file and output the result to the console:**
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`readable index.html`
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**Fetch a web page and read it in W3M:**
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`readable https://www.wikipedia.org/ | w3m -T text/html`
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**Download a web page using cURL, get the title, the content, and an excerpt in plain text:**
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`curl https://example.com/page | readable -p title,excerpt,text-content`
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