Extract Article Text
Strip ads, sidebars, and navigation from a web page and keep only the article body. Paste the page's HTML (View Source → Copy → paste here). Powered by Mozilla's Reader View algorithm. Runs entirely in your browser.
About Extract Article Text
Extract Article Text strips the ads, sidebars, and navigation off a web page and keeps only the article body, using the same Reader View algorithm Mozilla built for Firefox. To use it, open the page's source (View Source, copy the HTML) and paste it in. Everything runs in your browser, and the output is clean plain text ready to reuse.
- Category
- text
- Input
- Accepts: text/html.
- Output
- Outputs: text/plain.
- Cost
- Free, runs in your browser
- Memory
- low
Common uses
- Pull a clean, readable version of a news article out of a cluttered page
- Strip ads and pop-ups from a blog post before saving it for reference
- Get just the article body to feed into a summarizer or translator
- Archive the readable content of a page without the surrounding chrome
- Extract a recipe or how-to from a page buried in ads
- Clean up scraped HTML down to the main story text
Frequently asked questions
How do I give it the page?
Open the page's HTML — View Source, then Copy — and paste it into the tool. It accepts text/html input.
What algorithm powers it?
Mozilla's Readability (the same engine behind Firefox's Reader View), which identifies and keeps the main article body while discarding ads, sidebars, and navigation.
Does it fetch the URL for me?
No. You paste the HTML yourself, and extraction runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded or fetched on your behalf.
What does it output?
Clean plain text of the article body, ready to summarize, translate, or save.
Will it work on every page?
It works best on article-style pages with a clear main body. Highly dynamic or unusual layouts may extract less cleanly.
Keywords
- readability
- reader
- article
- extract
- clean
- declutter
- web