Just in case we ever need absolute URLs

gistfile1.scala

/**
 * Drop in replacement for the original {{ExtensibleReadability}} class, allowing us to add some of our own processing. (Like augmenting image URLs
 * .)
 */
class UltimateReadability(base: String) extends ExtensibleReadability with Logging {

  val baseURI = URI.create(base)
  val uriConversion = catching(classOf[IllegalArgumentException])

  override def cleanup(document: JSoupDocument) {
    fixImageURIs(document)
  }

  /**
   * Fixes all URIs by turning relative references in absolute references using, given the base URI passed to the constructor.
   */
  def fixImageURIs(doc: JSoupDocument) {
    for {
      elem <- doc.select("img")
      src <- Option(elem.attr("src"))
      uri <- uriConversion opt(URI.create(src))
      if (!uri.isAbsolute)
    } {
      debug("Fixing %s".format(uri))
      val replacement = baseURI.resolve(uri)
      elem.attr("src", replacement.toASCIIString)
    }
  }

}