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:
Latest readability.js ( https://github.com/MHordecki/readability-redux/blob/master/readability/readability.js )
Ruby port by starrhorne and iterationlabs
Python port by gfxmonk ( https://github.com/gfxmonk/python-readability , based on BeautifulSoup )
Decruft effort to move to lxml ( http://www.minvolai.com/blog/decruft-arc90s-readability-in-python/ )
“BR to P” fix from readability.js which improves quality for smaller texts.
Github users contributions.
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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