ReadSharp

The library extracts the main content of a website and returns the extracted content as HTML and it's associated title, description, favicon and a all included images.

This content can be encapsulated in a <body>-Tag and displayed as a readable website with a custom CSS (it's up to you!).

ReadSharp is based on a custom PCL port of NReadability and SgmlReader, which are included in the solution.

Association with Pocket

This library is a replacement for the Article View API by Pocket, which is not only limited by usage and privacy, but also in it's way of extracting contents from websites.

Example

using ReadSharp;

Reader reader = new Reader();
Article article;

try
{
  article = await reader.Read("http://frontendplay.com/story/4/http-caching-demystified-part-2-implementation");
}
catch (Exception exc)
{
  // handle exception
}

Article Model

The Article contains following fields:

string Title (the title of the page)
string Description (description of the page, extracted from meta information)
string Content (contains the article)
Uri FrontImage (main page image extracted from meta tags like apple-touch-icon and others)
Uri Favicon (the favicon of the page)
List<ArticleImage> Images (contains all images found in the text)
string NextPage (contains the next page URI, if available)

Supported platforms

ReadSharp is a Portable Class Library, therefore it's compatible with multiple platforms:

.NET >= 4.0.3 (including WPF)
Silverlight >= 4
Windows Phone >= 7.5
Windows Store

Forked Dependencies

forks are included in the primary source code

Contributors


ceee

License

MIT License