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fast html to text parser (article readability tool) with python 3 support

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python-readability

Given a html document, it pulls out the main body text and cleans it up.

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

Installation

It’s easy using pip, just run:

$ pip install readability-lxml

Usage

>>> import requests
>>> from readability import Document

>>> response = requests.get('http://example.com')
>>> doc = Document(response.text)
>>> doc.title()
'Example Domain'

>>> doc.summary()
"""<html><body><div><body id="readabilityBody">\n<div>\n    <h1>Example Domain</h1>\n
<p>This domain is established to be used for illustrative examples in documents. You may
use this\n    domain in examples without prior coordination or asking for permission.</p>
\n    <p><a href="http://www.iana.org/domains/example">More information...</a></p>\n</div>
\n</body>\n</div></body></html>"""

Change Log

  • 0.8.1 Fixed processing of non-ascii HTMLs via regexps.

  • 0.8 Replaced XHTML output with HTML5 output in summary() call.

  • 0.7.1 Support for Python 3.7 . Fixed a slowdown when processing documents with lots of spaces.

  • 0.7 Improved HTML5 tags handling. Fixed stripping unwanted HTML nodes (only first matching node was removed before).

  • 0.6 Finally a release which supports Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 - 3.6

  • 0.5 Preparing a release to support Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4

  • 0.4 Added Videos loading and allowed more images per paragraph

  • 0.3 Added Document.encoding, positive_keywords and negative_keywords

Licensing

This code is under the Apache License 2.0 license.

Thanks to

  • Latest readability.js

  • Ruby port by starrhorne and iterationlabs

  • Python port by gfxmonk

  • Decruft effort <http://www.minvolai.com/blog/decruft-arc90s-readability-in-python/> to move to lxml

  • “BR to P” fix from readability.js which improves quality for smaller texts

  • Github users contributions.

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