cleanview

Clean the content of html articles, same job as services like Instapaper/Readability.

It doesn't use DOM or Virtual DOM in the process.

Usage:

import cleanview from "cleanview";

const optionalParameters = {
  url: "https://example.com/my-article",
};

const output = cleanview(ARTICLE_HTML, optionalParameters);

Optional Parameters:

• url: Here, you can pass the url of the article you're parsing, this is used to convert relative urls to absolute. So, if the link you're passing is https://example.com/my-article a relative article in the page pointing to /another-article will become https://example.com/another-article.

• minRatio: (default value is 0.75) a number between 0 and 1 which determinate the ratio of <p> tags a container should have to be considered the "main" article body, this ratio is compared against all the <p> tags inside the page, that means, if the container have at least 75% of all the <p> tags in the page, this will be the main container, if not, his parent container will be checked for if it fulfills the desired ratio.

• includeTags: Tags to include in the content search, you can check the default tag list on src/defaults/valid-tags.ts.

• forbiddenClasses: Classes to exclude from the conent search, you can check the default class list on src/defaults/forbidden-classes.ts.