react-native-webview-readability

This package uses Readability to provide a nice experience for displaying content from any website or url

Main Feature:

• This provides a Safari readerMode like feel that display's content cleanly (For Reading)

How to use:

• Just pass in a Url into the component and your good to go.

Installation Instructions

$ npm install react-native-webview-readability

Follow Getting Started if react-native-webview is not installed or simply.

$ react-native link react-native-webview

Example

import ReadabilityWebView from "react-native-webview-readability";

const css = `
  body {
    color: #2a2a2a;
    font-family: sans-serif, Roboto, monospace;
  }
  img, figure {
    display: none;
  }
  h1 {
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
    border-color: #ccc;
    padding-bottom: 3px;
    border-bottom-style:solid;
    font-size: 1.6em;
    font-weight: bold;
    letter-spacing: .05em;
  }
  p {
    letter-spacing: .03em;
  }
`;

<ReadabilityWebView
  htmlCss={css}
  url="https://www.nytimes.com/"
  title="The Earth is Flat"
/>;

Available Props

| prop | default | type | description | | -------------------- | --------- | --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | url | "" | string | Required: A valid web url source | | htmlCss | "" | string | Optional: Css StyleSheet in a string format. Follow the default template for a start | | readerMode | true | boolean | Optional: Render the view with a Safari reader Mode Feel | | renderLoader | null | Component | Optional: A custom component to render while your content is being loaded | | title | "" | string | Optional: A title to enforce for the content. Helps when a website has multiple h1 tags or (dirty html) | | containerStyle | undefined | object | Optional: Controls the styling of the outer wrapper of the webview. (Useful for animations) | | loaderContainerStyle | undefined | object | Optional: Controls the styling of the container for the spinner that appears when content is loading | | indicatorProps | undefined | object | Optional: Exposes all ActivityIndicator props | | onError | null | function | Optional: A function that fires the error if a url is not valid |

This package also exposes every prop for react-native-webview. For the list of all available props check out Other Props

Experimental Branch (Webview Removal)

Checkout the experimental/react-native-reader branch for webview dependancy removal and true native solution to parse any website into a reading view. You can install the dependancy with npm install react-native-reader and just drop in the new package to try it out.