fast html to text parser (article readability tool) with python3 support
Project description
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()
>> u'<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
0.7.1 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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