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fast python port of arc90's readability tool

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This code is under the Apache License 2.0. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

This is a python port of a ruby port of arc90’s readability project

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

In few words, Given a html document, it pulls out the main body text and cleans it up. It also can clean up title based on latest readability.js code.

Based on:

Installation:

easy_install readability-lxml
or
pip install readability-lxml

Usage:

from readability.readability import Document
import urllib
html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
readable_article = Document(html).summary()
readable_title = Document(html).short_title()

Command-line usage:

python -m readability.readability -u http://pypi.python.org/pypi/readability-lxml

Using positive/negative keywords example:

python -m readability.readability -p intro -n newsindex,homepage-box,news-section -u http://python.org

Document() kwarg options:

  • attributes:

  • debug: output debug messages

  • min_text_length:

  • retry_length:

  • url: will allow adjusting links to be absolute

  • positive_keywords: the list of positive search patterns in classes and ids, for example: [“news-item”, “block”]

  • negative_keywords: the list of negative search patterns in classes and ids, for example: [“mysidebar”, “related”, “ads”]

Updates

  • 0.2.5 Update setup.py for uploading .tar.gz to pypi

  • 0.2.6 Don’t crash on documents with no title

  • 0.2.6.1 Document.short_title() properly works

  • 0.3 Added Document.encoding, positive_keywords and negative_keywords

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