# Write and deploy your own self-hosted Readability clone

DevFeed: [Write and deploy your own self-hosted Readability clone](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/write-and-deploy-your-own-self-hosted-readability-clone-32158.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://adambard.com/blog/self-hosted-readability-on-heroku-with-nodejs/>)

Published: 2016-03-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Adam Bard](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/adam-bard.md>)

Topics: [Self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-hosted.md>), [Node.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/node-js.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [Heroku](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/heroku.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Document Object Model (DOM)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dom.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mozilla.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>)

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## AI overview

A tutorial for building and deploying a self-hosted Readability clone with Heroku and Node.js. It uses Mozilla's Readability.js through readability-node, jsdom to provide a DOM, and a Node.js server to fetch URLs and display extracted article text.

## Source excerpt

Readability.org is a handy tool, but it also suffers from being useful, popular and free - the service is (understandably) often down, or slow. If you're a heavy Readability user, it might interest you to know that there exist many software libraries that attempt to recreate Readability's main function - pulling the main body of text out of a page laden with ads and other distractions. Some of these work better than others, but Mozilla's Readability.