ReadSharp was previously PocketSharp.Reader and is now hosted without the PocketSharp dependency.
Install ReadSharp using NuGet
Install-Package ReadSharp
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.
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.
using ReadSharp;
Reader reader = new Reader();
Article article;
try
{
article = await reader.Read(new Uri("http://frontendplay.com/story/4/http-caching-demystified-part-2-implementation"));
}
catch (ReadException exc)
{
// handle exception
}You can pass HttpOptions to the Reader constructor, which count for all requests:
HttpMessageHandlerCustomHttpHandler
Use your own HTTP handlerint?RequestTimeout
Define a custom timeout in seconds, after which requests should cancelstringUserAgent
Override the user agent, which is passed to the destination serverboolUseMobileUserAgent
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!
There are also ReadOptions available, which are passed on every request:
boolHasHeaderTags
Return complete HTML document or just the body partboolHasNoHeadline
Removes<h1>title from the articleboolUseDeepLinks
If you check this option, deep-links (containing hashes, e.g.href="#article") are not transformed into absolute URIsboolPrettyPrint
Determines whether the HTML output will be formatted
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)
UriUristringTitle (extracted from the title attribute)stringAlternativeText (extracted from the alt attribute)
ReadSharp is a Portable Class Library, therefore it's compatible with multiple platforms:
- .NET >= 4.0.3 (including WPF)
- Silverlight >= 4
- Windows Phone >= 7.5
- Windows Store
forks are included in the primary source code
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