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reader-view-cli
Firefox Reader View in your terminal!
reader-view-cli takes any HTML page and strips out unnecessary bloat by using Mozilla's Readability library. 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, and other uses.
An example of Reader View in Firefox:
Standard view
Reader View
An example of reader-view-cli with W3M browser:
Standard view
reader-view-cli
Usage
readable [SOURCE] [options]
readable [options] -- [SOURCE]
where SOURCE is a file, an http(s) URL, or '-' for standard input
See readable --help for more information.
Examples
Read HTML from a file and output the result to the console:
readable index.html
Fetch a web page and read it in W3M:
readable https://example.com/page | w3m -T text/html
Download a web page using cURL, get the title, the content, and an excerpt in plain text:
curl https://example.com/page | readable --url=https://example.com/page -p title,excerpt,text-content
It's a good idea to supply the --url parameter when piping input, otherwise readable won't know the document's URL, and things like relative links won't work.