Crux parses Web pages to identify the crux of an article — the very essential points — minus all the fluff.

• Rich formatted content available, not just plain text.
• Support for more sites & better parsing overall.
• Support for more metadata formats: OpenGraph, Twitter Cards, Schema.org.
• Small footprint and code size: JSoup is the only required dependency.
• Fewer setters/getters, to keep the method count low (this is important for Android).
• The ability to use HTTP libraries besides the default HttpUrlConnection, such as OkHttp, under the hood.
• Cleaner, leaner code (compared to other libraries not optimized for Android)
• First-class support for importing into Android Studio projects via Gradle.
• Continuous integration with unit tests and golden file tests.

Project/build.gradle:

allprojects {
  repositories {
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
  }
}

Module/build.gradle:

dependencies {
  compile 'com.github.chimbori:crux:-SNAPSHOT'
}

Using a singleton instance of OkHttp.

OkHttpClient okHttpClient = new OkHttpClient();

In a background thread:

CandidateURL candidateUrl = new CandidateURL(url); 
if (candidateURL.isLikelyArticle()) {
  Request request = new Request.Builder()
      .url(url)  // Customize your network request as you see fit.
      .build();
  Response response = okHttpClient.newCall().execute();
  Article article = new Extractor().extractContent(response.body().string());
}

On the UI thread:

// Use article.document, article.title, etc.

Crux began as a fork of Snacktory with the goal of making it more performant on Android devices, but it has quickly gained several new features that are not available in Snacktory.

Snacktory (and thus Crux) borrow ideas and test cases from Goose and JReadability.

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