maalfrid_toolkit 1.0.1

Toolkit for the Målfrid project

Maalfrid toolkit

maalfrid_toolkit is a Python package designed for crawling and extracting natural language data from documents found on the web (HTML, PDF, DOC). It is primarily used in the Målfrid project, a collaboration between the National Library of Norway and The Language Council of Norway, which aims to measure the usage of the two official Norwegian language forms, Bokmål and Nynorsk, on Norwegian public sector websites. While the toolkit has a particular emphasis on the Nordic countries, it supports extraction and language detection of more than 60 languages.

It builds upon:

• wget and (custom) browsertrix for crawling
• JusText for HTML boilerplate removal
• Notram PDF text extraction from NB AI-lab
• DOC extraction using docx2txt and antiword
• Gielladetect/pytextcat and GlotLID V3 for language detection

Install

Install with pip

pip install maalfrid_toolkit

Install with pdm

pdm install

OS-level dependencies (tested with Ubuntu 24.04)

For fasttext

sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-dev

For .doc text extraction

sudo apt-get install antiword

Test run crawl

python3 -m maalfrid_toolkit.crawl src/maalfrid_toolkit/crawljobs/example.com.yaml

Test run pipeline

On HTML

python -m maalfrid_toolkit.pipeline --url https://www.nb.no/utstilling/opplyst-glimt-fra-en-kulturhistorie/ --verbose

On PDF

python -m maalfrid_toolkit.pipeline --url https://www.nb.no/sbfil/dok/nst_taledat_dk.pdf --verbose

On DOC

python -m maalfrid_toolkit.pipeline --url https://www.nb.no/content/uploads/2018/11/Søknadsskjema-Bokhylla-2.doc

On WARC file (e.g. from self-crawled material)

python -m maalfrid_toolkit.pipeline --warc_file example_com-00000.warc.gz --verbose

Database (Postgres)

If you want to store and process the data further in a database, setup a Postgres database and enter your credentials in an .env file in the package root directory (see env-example). Be sure to populate the database with schema and indices found in db/ prior to running the commands in maalfrid_toolkit.db.

A note on using Browsertrix

In order to use Browsertrix for crawling JavaScript-heavy pages and extract text from HTML, you must currently clone a custom Browsertrix from:

https://github.com/Sprakbanken/browsertrix-crawler/tree/add-dom-resource

Then build with Docker:

docker build -t maalfrid-browsertrix .

License

GPL