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Mozilla Ecosystem for readability apis - Fathom vs Mercury vs Readability

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Reader views and readability APIs are important for making web pages accessible. These libraries de-clutter web pages by removing sidebars and make the actual content more prominent. There seem to be 3 projects related to readability from Mozilla.

  1. https://github.com/mozilla/fathom
  2. https://github.com/mozilla/readability
  3. https://medium.com/@readability/an-important-announcement-for-all-readability-api-users-32dbee232b29 and https://mercury.postlight.com/

Fathom claims to be a successor of readability but I checked their GitHub repos and both of them are still merging pull requests and recent commits were from less than a month ago. Similarly, the medium article, ostensibly, from Mozilla claims that mercury is the right successor for readability.

Can someone, who has experience in this area, clarify the relative (dis)-advantages of these libraries, please?

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