Readability and JSDOM

Been pulling a lot of data from webpages recently, and here's a simple way to get the text. It's not perfect but it's easy.

package.json:

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{
    "type": "module",
    "dependencies": {
        "@mozilla/readability": "^0.5.0",
        "jsdom": "^24.0.0"
    }
}

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  import { Readability } from '@mozilla/readability';
  import { JSDOM } from 'jsdom';

  async function extractText(url) {
      const doc = await JSDOM.fromURL(url);
      let reader = new Readability(doc.window.document);
      let article = reader.parse();

      return article;
  }

  const text = await extractText(  "https://willschenk.com/fragments/2024/discovering_idagio/" );

  console.log( text.title );
  console.log( text.textContent )