dateparser 0.5.0

Popular Formats

>>> import dateparser
>>> dateparser.parse('12/12/12')
datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 12, 0, 0)
>>> dateparser.parse(u'Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:55:50')
datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 12, 10, 55, 50)
>>> dateparser.parse(u'Martes 21 de Octubre de 2014')  # Spanish (Tuesday 21 October 2014)
datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 21, 0, 0)
>>> dateparser.parse(u'Le 11 Décembre 2014 à 09:00')  # French (11 December 2014 at 09:00)
datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 11, 9, 0)
>>> dateparser.parse(u'13 января 2015 г. в 13:34')  # Russian (13 January 2015 at 13:34)
datetime.datetime(2015, 1, 13, 13, 34)
>>> dateparser.parse(u'1 เดือนตุลาคม 2005, 1:00 AM')  # Thai (1 October 2005, 1:00 AM)
datetime.datetime(2005, 10, 1, 1, 0)

This will try to parse a date from the given string, attempting to detect the language each time.

You can specify the language(s), if known, using languages argument. In this case, given languages are used and language detection is skipped:

>>> dateparser.parse('2015, Ago 15, 1:08 pm', languages=['pt', 'es'])
datetime.datetime(2015, 8, 15, 13, 8)

If you know the possible formats of the dates, you can use the date_formats argument:

>>> dateparser.parse(u'22 Décembre 2010', date_formats=['%d %B %Y'])
datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 22, 0, 0)

Relative Dates

>>> parse('1 hour ago')
datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 31, 23, 0)
>>> parse(u'Il ya 2 heures')  # French (2 hours ago)
datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 31, 22, 0)
>>> parse(u'1 anno 2 mesi')  # Italian (1 year 2 months)
datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 1, 0, 0)
>>> parse(u'yaklaşık 23 saat önce')  # Turkish (23 hours ago)
datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 31, 1, 0)
>>> parse(u'Hace una semana')  # Spanish (a week ago)
datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 25, 0, 0)
>>> parse(u'2小时前')  # Chinese (2 hours ago)
datetime.datetime(2015, 5, 31, 22, 0)

OOTB Language Based Date Order Preference

>>> # parsing ambiguous date
>>> parse('02-03-2016')  # assumes english language, uses MDY date order
datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 2, 0, 0)
>>> parse('le 02-03-2016')  # detects french, uses DMY date order
datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 2, 0, 0)

For more on date order, please look at Settings.

Timezone and UTC Offset

dateparser automatically detects the timezone if given in the date string. If date has no timezone name/abbreviation or offset, you can still specify it using TIMEZONE setting.

>>> parse('January 12, 2012 10:00 PM', settings={'TIMEZONE': 'US/Eastern'})
datetime.datetime(2012, 1, 12, 22, 0)

You can also convert from one time zone to another using TO_TIMEZONE setting.

>>> parse('10:00 am', settings={'TO_TIMEZONE': 'EDT', 'TIMEZONE': 'EST'})
datetime.datetime(2016, 9, 25, 11, 0)

>>> parse('10:00 am EST', settings={'TO_TIMEZONE': 'EDT'})
datetime.datetime(2016, 9, 25, 11, 0)

Support for tzaware objects:

>>> parse('12 Feb 2015 10:56 PM EST', settings={'RETURN_AS_TIMEZONE_AWARE': True})
datetime.datetime(2015, 2, 12, 22, 56, tzinfo=<StaticTzInfo 'EST'>)

For more on timezones, please look at Settings.

Incomplete Dates

>>> from dateparser import parse
>>> parse(u'December 2015')  # default behavior
datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 16, 0, 0)
>>> parse(u'December 2015', settings={'PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH': 'last'})
datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 31, 0, 0)
>>> parse(u'December 2015', settings={'PREFER_DAY_OF_MONTH': 'first'})
datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 1, 0, 0)

>>> parse(u'March')
datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 16, 0, 0)
>>> parse(u'March', settings={'PREFER_DATES_FROM': 'future'})
datetime.datetime(2016, 3, 16, 0, 0)
>>> # parsing with preference set for 'past'
>>> parse('August', settings={'PREFER_DATES_FROM': 'past'})
datetime.datetime(2015, 8, 15, 0, 0)

You can also ignore parsing incomplete dates altogether by setting STRICT_PARSING flag as follows:

>>> parse(u'December 2015', settings={'STRICT_PARSING': True})
None

For more on handling incomplete dates, please look at Settings.

0.5.0 (2016-09-26)

New features:

• DateDataParser now also returns detected language in the result dictionary.

• Explicit and lucid timezone conversion for a given datestring using TIMEZONE, TO_TIMEZONE settings.

• Added Hungarian langauge.

• Added setting, STRICT_PARSING to ignore imcomplete dates.

Improvements:

• Fixed quite a few parser bugs reported in issues #219, #222, #207, #224.

• Improved support for chinese language.

• Consistent interface for both Jalali and Hijri parsers.

0.4.0 (2016-06-17)

New features:

• Support for Language based date order preference while parsing ambiguous dates.

• Support for parsing dates with no spaces in between components.

• Support for custom date order preference using settings.

• Support for parsing generic relative dates in future.e.g. tomorrow, in two weeks, etc.

• Added RELATIVE_BASE settings to set date context to any datetime in past or future.

• Replaced dateutil.parser.parse with dateparser’s own parser.

Improvements:

• Added simplifications for 12 noon and 12 midnight.

• Fixed several bugs

• Replaced PyYAML library by its active fork ruamel.yaml which also fixed the issues with installation on windows using python35.

• More predictable date_formats handling.

0.3.5 (2016-04-27)

New features:

• Danish language support.

• Japanese language support.

• Support for parsing date strings with accents.

Improvements:

• Transformed languages.yaml into base file and separate files for each language.

• Fixed vietnamese language simplifications.

• No more version restrictions for python-dateutil.

• Timezone parsing improvements.

• Fixed test environments.

• Cleaned language codes. Now we strictly follow codes as in ISO 639-1.

• Improved chinese dates parsing.

0.3.4 (2016-03-03)

Improvements:

• Fixed broken version 0.3.3 by excluding latest python-dateutil version.

0.3.3 (2016-02-29)

New features:

• Finnish language support.

Improvements:

• Faster parsing with switching to regex module.

• RETURN_AS_TIMEZONE_AWARE setting to return tz aware date object.

• Fixed conflicts with month/weekday names similarity across languages.

0.3.2 (2016-01-25)

New features:

• Added Hijri Calendar support.

• Added settings for better control over parsing dates.

• Support to convert parsed time to the given timezone for both complete and relative dates.

Improvements:

• Fixed problem with caching datetime.now in FreshnessDateDataParser.

• Added month names and week day names abbreviations to several languages.

• More simplifications for Russian and Ukranian languages.

• Fixed problem with parsing time component of date strings with several kinds of apostrophes.

0.3.1 (2015-10-28)

New features:

• Support for Jalali Calendar.

• Belarusian language support.

• Indonesian language support.

Improvements:

• Extended support for Russian and Polish.

• Fixed bug with time zone recognition.

• Fixed bug with incorrect translation of “second” for Portuguese.

0.3.0 (2015-07-29)

New features:

• Compatibility with Python 3 and PyPy.

Improvements:

• languages.yaml data cleaned up to make it human-readable.

• Improved Spanish date parsing.

0.2.1 (2015-07-13)

• Support for generic parsing of dates with UTC offset.

• Support for Tagalog/Filipino dates.

• Improved support for French and Spanish dates.

0.2.0 (2015-06-17)

• Easy to use parse function

• Languages definitions using YAML.

• Using translation based approach for parsing non-english languages. Previously, dateutil.parserinfo was used for language definitions.

• Better period extraction.

• Improved tests.

• Added a number of new simplifications for more comprehensive generic parsing.

• Improved validation for dates.

• Support for Polish, Thai and Arabic dates.

• Support for pytz timezones.

• Fixed building and packaging issues.

0.1.0 (2014-11-24)

• First release on PyPI.