Readability Extractor

Load a fully rendered page with Browser Rendering, then strip navigation, ads, and sidebars using readability-style heuristics. Returns title, author (when detectable), body text, word count, and estimated read time.

Features

• GET /extract - rendered DOM extraction with readability heuristics
• Returns title, author, body, wordCount, readTimeMinutes
• Uses @cloudflare/puppeteer like other Browser Rendering experiments

API Reference

GET /extract

url string (required) - Article URL (http or https).

Example Request

curl "https://your-worker.workers.dev/extract?url=https://example.com/article"

Error Codes

• 400 - INVALID_URL
• 502 - EXTRACT_ERROR

Use Cases

• Build reading-mode or newsletter digest pipelines
• Extract main content from JavaScript-heavy news sites
• Prototype RAG document ingestion from article URLs

Limitations

• Requires Browser Rendering on your account
• Heuristic extraction; not identical to Mozilla Readability
• Local dev may need wrangler dev --remote for browser binding

Deployment

Local Development

cd apps/experiments/readability-extractor
npm install
npm run dev

Configuration

Browser binding BROWSER and nodejs_compat_v2 in wrangler.json.

Cloudflare Features Used

• Browser Rendering
• Workers