Readability Python Packages

trafilatura

Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML

10.5M 6K 392

pyaml

PyYAML-based module to produce a bit more pretty and readable YAML-serialized data

7.6M 139 32

readabilipy

A simple HTML content extractor in Python. Can be run as a wrapper for Mozilla's Readability.js package or in pure-python mode.

1.4M 360 43

textstat

:memo: python package to calculate readability statistics of a text object - paragraphs, sentences, articles.

1.2M 1K 183

abx-plugins

🧩 Plugins and extractors that ArchiveBox + abx-dl use: chrome, ytdlp, wget, singlefile, readability, forum-dl, gallery-dl, papers-dl, and more...

104K 8 3

py-readability-metrics

📗 Score text readability using a number of formulas: Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning Fog, ARI, Dale Chall, SMOG, and more

28K 407 67

contextractor

Crawl any website and extract clean, boilerplate-free main-content text as Markdown, plain text, JSON, HTML, or raw original HTML — ready for LLMs, RAG, and vector databases. Built on rs-trafilatura + Crawlee/Playwright. Ships as a CLI, npm library, Python package, and Apify Actor.

10K 0 2

textdescriptives

A Python library for calculating a large variety of metrics from text

6K 366 26

sspipe

Simple Smart Pipe: python productivity-tool for rapid data manipulation

4K 155 6

readsight

Multilingual readability library for Python - 86 languages, 17 formulas, TeX-based syllable counting via Frank M. Liang algorithm.

2K 43 10

article-extractor

Pure-Python article extraction library and HTTP API - Extract clean content from web pages as Markdown or HTML

2K 0 0

vyxal

A code-golfing language experience that has aspects of traditional programming languages - terse yet convenient.

2K 303 34

blackmount-nlp-mcp

Text analysis and NLP MCP server — no NLTK, no spaCy, just results

1K 2 0

jreadability

Text readability calculator for Japanese learners 🇯🇵

955 26 4

smoothtext

SmoothText is a Python library for calculating readability scores of texts and statistical information for texts in multiple languages.

864 1 0

veilrender

Headless browser rendering API — self-hostable on HF Spaces, Docker, or bare metal

813 1 0

pycleancode

A Python toolkit to help developers write professional-grade, maintainable, and clean code following clean code principles.

728 5 2

pystylometry

Comprehensive Python toolkit for stylometry

622 3 1

new-dale-chall-readability

How readable is your text? Provide a text input and get its grade level. Validated against the source data.

588 13 3

scireadability

Assess readability and statistics of texts, enhanced for scientific and technical work. For anyone publishing scientific work, including researchers and science communication professionals.

563 1 0