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+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+#
+# Executes python-readability on current page and opens the summary as new tab.
+#
+# Usage:
+# :spawn --userscript readability
+#
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+import codecs, os
+from readability.readability import Document
+
+tmpfile=os.path.expanduser('~/.local/share/qutebrowser/userscripts/readability.html')
+if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(tmpfile)):
+ os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(tmpfile))
+
+with codecs.open(os.environ['QUTE_HTML'], 'r', 'utf-8') as source:
+ doc = Document(source.read())
+ content = doc.summary().replace('', '%s' % doc.title())
+
+ with codecs.open(tmpfile, 'w', 'utf-8') as target:
+ target.write('')
+ target.write(content)
+
+ with open(os.environ['QUTE_FIFO'], 'w') as fifo:
+ fifo.write('open -t %s' % tmpfile)