date-extractor 3.9.1

Extract dates from text

date-extractor

date-extractor helps you extract dates from text

Installation

pip install pytz
pip install date-extractor

Use

from date_extractor import extract_dates
text = "I arrived in that city on January 4, 1937"
dates = extract_dates(text)

Returning Precision

from date_extractor import extract_date
text = "I arrived in that city in 1937"
date, precision = extract_date(text, return_precision=True)
# precision = 'year'

Features

Languages Supported
Arabic
English
French
Sorani (Kurdish)
Turkish

Testing

To test the package run

python -m unittest date_extractor.tests.test

If you are using Python 3, you may need to run the following to test

python3 -m unittest date_extractor.tests.test

Versions

Works on Python 2 and 3!

Users

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