What is rs-trafilatura?

Rust library for page-type-aware web content extraction. Classifies pages, applies custom rules — beats generic scrapers on forums, products, docs.

How does rs-trafilatura compare to Trafilatura?

rs-trafilatura: 0.859 F1 at 44ms/page. Trafilatura: 0.791 F1 at 94ms. Massive gains on non-articles (forums +0.207 F1).

Yes — 44ms/page average. Hybrid mode hits 0.910 F1 without slowing 92% of pages.

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Your web scraper's puking boilerplate on every forum post? rs-trafilatura — a Rust beast — sniffs page types and extracts clean. Finally.

Open Source Beat Apr 03, 2026 3 min read 13 views

rs-trafilatura crushes non-article extraction with 0.859 F1 score at blazing 44ms/page. 𝕏
Type-aware classification fixes architectural flaws in tools like Trafilatura. 𝕏
Hybrid pipeline + Rust speed positions it for production crawlers and RAG. 𝕏

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