Snacktory – Yet another Readability clone. This time in Java.
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Join For FreeFor Jetslide I needed a readability Java clone. There are already some tools, but I wanted some more and other features so I adapted the existing goose and jreadability and added some stuff. Check out the detection quality at Jetslide and fork it to improve it – since today snacktory is free software 
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Snacktory
This is a small helper utility for pepole don’t want to write yet another java clone of Readability. In most cases, this is applied to articles, although it should work for any website to find its major area and extract its text and its important picture. Have a look into
Jetslide where Snacktory is used. Jetslide is a new way to consume news, it does not only display the Websites’ title but it displays a small preview of the site (‘a snack’) and the important image if available.
License
The software stands under Apache 2 License and comes with NO WARRANTY
Features
Snacktory borrows some ideas from
jReadability and
goose (ideas + a lot test cases)
The advantages over jReadability are
- better article text detection than jReadability
- only Java deps
- more tests
The advantages over Goose are
- similar article text detection although better detection for none-english sites (German, Japanese, …)
- snacktory does not depend on the word count in its text detection to support CJK languages
- no external Services required to run the core tests => faster tests
- better charset detection
- with caching support
- skipping some known filetypes
The disadvantages to Goose are
- only the detection of the top image and the top text is supported at the moment
- some tests which passed do not pass. But added a bunch of other useful sites (stackoverflow, facebook, other languages …)
Usage
HtmlFetcher fetcher = new HtmlFetcher(); // set cache. e.g. take the map implementation from google collections: // fetcher.setCache(new MapMaker().concurrencyLevel(20). // maximumSize(count).expireAfterWrite(minutes, TimeUnit.MINUTES).makeMap(); JResult res = fetcher.fetchAndExtract(url, resolveTimeout, true); res.getText(); res.getTitle(); res.getImageUrl();
From http://karussell.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/snacktory-yet-another-readability-clone-this-time-in-java/
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