A standalone version of the readability library used for Firefox Reader View. Any changes to Readability.js itself should be reviewed by an appropriate Firefox/toolkit peer, such as [@leibovic](https://github.com/leibovic) or [@thebnich](https://github.com/thebnich), since these changes will be automatically merged to mozilla-central.
var article = new Readability(uri, document).parse();
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This `article` object will contain the following properties:
*`uri`: original `uri` object that was passed to constructor
*`title`: article title
*`content`: HTML string of processed article content
*`length`: length of article, in characters
*`excerpt`: article description, or short excerpt from content
*`byline`: author metadata
*`dir`: content direction
## Contributing
For outstanding issues, see the issue list in this repo, as well as this bug list: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1102450
To test local changes to Readability.js, you can run your own instance of [readable-proxy](https://github.com/n1k0/readable-proxy/) to compare an original test page to its reader-ized content.