unclutter

I think the problem here is not on the technical side. The places where we find stuff to read (aggregators, homepages, social networks) just don't work well if you're only extracting the text and links. There's also a huge long tail of parsing issues because web pages are not static documents. You'd want a fallback to the original HTML -- so why not use your main browser? There are extensions that activate reader mode automatically on pages where it's supported [0]. [0] I'm working on one of them: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter

Another approach to completeness could be to remove noise from the original page instead of parsing just the text from it. In the worst case the page isn't changed at all but it's still usable (like when ad blockers miss some ads). [0] I assume you only want always-on reader mode for articles -- and detecting what's an article is another NLP problem. Yet both the completeness and article detection can probably be solved through heuristics in 90% of cases (the evidence is that we DO use reader modes). Maybe it depends on how much the last 10% frustrate you. [0] I'm working on a browser extension that does this: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter