lectito

lectito is the Rust library crate for Lectito. It extracts readable article content from HTML and returns cleaned HTML, Markdown, plain text, metadata, and diagnostics.

Add it to a Rust project:

[dependencies]
lectito = "0.1"

Use the library through the lectito crate name:

use lectito::{extract, ReadabilityOptions};

fn main() -> Result<(), lectito::Error> {
    let html = r#"
        <article>
            <h1>Readable HTML in Rust</h1>
            <p>Lectito extracts the article body and removes page chrome.</p>
            <p>It returns cleaned HTML, Markdown, plain text, and metadata.</p>
        </article>
    "#;

    let options = ReadabilityOptions { char_threshold: 0, ..Default::default() };
    let article = extract(html, Some("https://example.com/post"), &options)?
        .expect("example article should be readable");

    println!("{}", article.markdown);

    Ok(())
}

The crate does not fetch pages. Pass HTML from your own crawler, browser, cache, test fixture, or application code.

Extraction starts with structured metadata and known article containers before falling back to generic readability scoring.

Use content_selector when your caller already knows the article root, and use extract_with_diagnostics when you need to debug root selection.