Clean Article Reader

How it works

Your pasted HTML is parsed into a DOM with the browser's built-in DOMParser, then handed to Mozilla's actual Readability library — the same open-source extraction engine Firefox uses for Reader View — which scores each block of the page by link density, text length, and tag type to decide what's the real article versus navigation, ads, or comments. It can't fetch a URL directly because cross-origin requests are blocked by browsers for security, which is why you paste the page's source instead of a link.

FAQ

Why can't I just paste a URL?

Browsers block a webpage from fetching another site's raw HTML across origins (CORS) as a security measure — there's no client-side workaround, so you copy the page's view-source HTML and paste it in instead.

Why does it sometimes say it can't find a clear article?

Readability's scoring algorithm looks for a dense block of paragraph text — pages that are mostly navigation, a paywall stub, or a JavaScript-rendered app shell (where the article text hasn't loaded into the static HTML you copied) won't have enough signal for it to identify content.