AHahmedbaracat·Jul 1, 2020Submission
Mozilla Fathom: A framework for extracting meaning from web pages
1 points · Open discussionmozilla
fathom
JavaScript2016–2020
mozilla / fathom · Archived
fathom
DEPRECATED - A framework for extracting meaning from web pages
6Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
DEPRECATED - A framework for extracting meaning from web pages
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.
No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.
Also in these discussions
No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year6 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2016-07-06 19:41:26 UTC to 2020-07-01 09:29:10 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesYou might prefer the more technical introduction at https://mozilla.github.io/fathom/intro.html#specific-areas-w.... It talks about Fathom in terms of declarativeness.
> "on a selection of"
One has to start somewhere! At this early stage, my aim is to demonstrate that Fathom has value for simplifying the implementation of recognizers, not to claim a polished, production-ready Readability alternative.
Though, frankly, getting to the latter would be a fun project for someone: just write more features (in the ML sense), and add more tuning data. There are lots of low-hanging TODOs in the code around https://github.com/mozilla/fathom/blob/master/examples/reada....
In Fathom: a framework for understanding web pagesPrevious discussion: https://github.com/mozilla/fathom
In Fathom: a framework for understanding web pagesFathom – A framework for extracting meaning from web pages
2 points · Open discussionMozilla Fathom: Find meaning in the web
192 points · Open discussionWe are just getting started and most of this is still in the design phase. Technology choices will have to be made.
The two most concrete things right now related to Context Graph are probably Activity Stream and the Fathom project. Fathom is an experimental framework to extract meaning from web pages ad can be used for a wide range of applications.
Production builds of Activity Stream can installed via TestPilot.
https://github.com/mozilla/activity-stream
https://github.com/mozilla/fathom
https://testpilot.firefox.com
In Mozilla Context Graph: It’s time to bring context back to the web