Description
ReadabilityKit helps you to extract a relevant preview (title, description, image and video) from the URL.
The extraction goal is to try and get the best extraction from the article for servicing applications that need to show a preview of a web URL along with an image. Comparison with other libraries available here and why you should use ReadabilityKit instead of SwiftLinkPreview here.
Inspired by snacktory and newspaper.
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README
ReadabilityKit
Preview extractor for news, articles and full-texts in Swift
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Features
Extracts:
- [x] Title
- [x] Description
- [x] Top image
- [x] Top video
- [x] Keywords
- [x] Date
Usage
let articleUrl = URL(string: "https://someurl.com/")!
Readability.parse(url: articleUrl, completion: { data in
let title = data?.title
let description = data?.description
let keywords = data?.keywords
let imageUrl = data?.topImage
let videoUrl = data?.topVideo
let datePublished = data?.datePublished
})
To run the example project, clone the repo, and run pod install
from the Example directory first.
Installation
CocoaPods
pod 'ReadabilityKit'
Carthage
github "exyte/ReadabilityKit"
Manually
- Install Ji XML parser.
- Download and drop all files from Sources folder in your project.
Development Environment Setup
- Install Carthage.
- Check out and build the project's dependencies:
carthage bootstrap --platform <name>
Requirements
- iOS 10.0+ / macOS 10.12+ / tvOS 10.0+ / watchOS 3.0+
License
ReadabilityKit is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the ReadabilityKit README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.