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mozilla commented on June 18, 2024

Update Readbility algorithm description

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adentranter commented on June 18, 2024 1

The link to Readbility is broken ( https://github.com/mozilla/fathom/issues/Readability#algorithm ) from within the first comment.

[Fixed!]

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erikrose commented on June 18, 2024

Changes by Moz:

Give up if no body tag.
Add tests.
Use JSDOMParser, and change traversal significantly ( d94f3158d374e181fb0cbb9ea33afa705f61f806)
Improve byline extraction.
Look at the scores of parents of the top candidate, and recognize them as content if they appear to be going up as we ascend the tree. (955951659d15ae363e20ec59441ba010c7853b95)
Replace explicit iterator loops with forEach.
Strip embed tags.
Improve support for YouTube and Vimeo embedded videos.
Various other fixes
Preserve inline tweets in an article.
Don't remove figure tags.
Add isProbablyReaderable(), which guesses if it's readerable without actually parsing the whole thing.
Lose Share buttons.
Don't remove "unlikely" tags as zealously; keep their content.
Generally play whack-a-mole with class names to keep up with a changing web: "modal", "related", etc.

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