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Growth · April 24, 2014

Get clean readable content from any webpage

Get Readable Content from any page. Based on Arc90's readability project using cheerio engine. - bndr/node-read

Get clean readable content from any webpage launched on April 24, 2014 with 80 votes, #262 of 1,174 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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In plain words

Node-read is a tool that extracts clean, readable content from webpages by removing clutter like ads and navigation elements. Built on Arc90's readability algorithm and powered by the cheerio engine, it helps developers programmatically parse web articles and text. The tool is designed for developers who need to process webpage content programmatically, making it useful for content aggregation, web scraping, and article extraction applications.

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