lauteur 0.0.6

Tools for ascribing authorship - to the chagrin of Barthes

lauteur ====== Tools for ascribing authorship - to the chagrin of `Barthes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Author>`__

Install

pip install lauteur

Test

Requires nose

nosetests

Usage

lauteur has two methods: from_string and from_html

from_string is mostly used in RSS Feed parsing where authors are sometimes embedded as bylines:

import lauteur

string = 'By: Brian Abelson ,and Michael H. Keller & Dr. Stijn Debrouwere IV'
authors = lauteur.from_string(string)
print authors

# ['Brian Abelson', 'Michael H Keller', 'DR Stijn Debrouwere IV']

from_html searches through common meta tags for authors.

import lauteur
import requests

r = requests.get('http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/books/michiko-kakutanis-10-favorite-books-of-2013.html')

authors = lauteur.from_html(r.content)
print authors
# ['Michiko Kakutani']

Todo:

• [ ] Find more meta tags.

• [ ] Improve name formatting algorithm.