Parsing Human-Readable Text Data with Readability.js and R

The R and JavaScript code to reproduce the results in this post is available from https://github.com/nanxstats/r-readability-parser. Photo by Nick Hillier. Update (2023-09-04): Browserify support was removed in jsdom v22.0.0. This post has been updated to recommend installing jsdom v20.0.0 to ensure the code examples work as intended. The original versions of JS libraries in the GitHub repo remain unchanged, as they continue to function correctly. Readability.js Maybe you have used tools like rvest to harvest text data from web …