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ReadSharp

ReadSharp was previously PocketSharp.Reader and is now hosted without the PocketSharp dependency.

Install ReadSharp using NuGet

Install-Package ReadSharp

What's it all about?

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

The 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 limited by usage and privacy.

With ReadSharp you won't hit any usage limits, as you are extracting the content directly. And it's open source.


Example

usingReadSharp;Readerreader=newReader();Articlearticle;try{article=awaitreader.Read(newUri("http://frontendplay.com/story/4/http-caching-demystified-part-2-implementation"));}catch(ReadExceptionexc){// handle exception}

Options

HttpOptions

You can pass HttpOptions to the Reader constructor, which count for all requests:

  • HttpMessageHandlerCustomHttpHandler
    Use your own HTTP handler
  • int?RequestTimeout
    Define a custom timeout in seconds, after which requests should cancel
  • boolUseMobileUserAgent
    Gets or sets a value indicating whether [use mobile user agent]
  • stringUserAgent
    Override the user agent, which is passed to the destination server
  • stringUserAgentMobile
    Override the mobile user agent, which is passed to the destination server
  • boolUseMobileUserAgent
    There are desktop and mobile default user agents. By enabling this property, the mobile user agent is used. If you pass a custom user agent, this property is ignored!
  • intMultipageLimit
    Gets or sets the download limit for articles with multiple pages (default: 10)

ReadOptions

There are also ReadOptions available, which are passed on every request:

  • boolHasHeaderTags
    Return complete HTML document or just the body part
  • boolHasNoHeadline
    Removes <h1> title from the article
  • boolUseDeepLinks
    If you check this option, deep-links (containing hashes, e.g. href="#article") are not transformed into absolute URIs
  • boolPrettyPrint
    Determines whether the HTML output will be formatted
  • boolPreferHTMLEncoding
    Determines whether to prefer the encoding found in the HTML or the one found in the HTTP Header (default: true)
  • boolMultipageDownload
    Download all pages for articles with multiple pages (default: false)
  • boolReplaceImagesWithPlaceholders
    If true, replace all img-tags with placeholders

Article Model

The Article contains following fields:

  • stringTitle (the title of the page)
  • stringDescription (description of the page, extracted from meta information)
  • stringContent (contains the article)
  • UriFrontImage (main page image extracted from meta tags like apple-touch-icon and others)
  • UriFavicon (the favicon of the page)
  • List<ArticleImage>Images (contains all images found in the text)
  • stringNextPage (contains the next page URI, if available)

Article Image

  • UriUri
  • stringTitle (extracted from the title attribute)
  • stringAlternativeText (extracted from the alt attribute)

Supported platforms

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

  • .NET >= 4.5 (including WPF)
  • UWP
  • Windows Phone (Silverlight + WinPRT) >= 8
  • Windows Store >= 8
  • Xamarin iOS + Android
  • WP7 and Silverlight are dropped in 6.0, use ReadSharp < 6.0, if you want to support them

Forked Dependencies

forks are included in the primary source code

Contributors

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License

MIT License

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