fast html to text parser (article readability tool) with python3 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 <http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/>`__.
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'
Change Log
----------
- 0.7 Improved HTML5 tags handling. Heuristics were changed for a lot of sites: Fixed an important
bug with 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
and 3.4
- 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 <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>`__ license.
Thanks to
---------
- Latest
`readability.js <https://github.com/MHordecki/readability-redux/blob/master/readability/readability.js>`__
- Ruby port by starrhorne and iterationlabs
- `Python port <https://github.com/gfxmonk/python-readability>`__ 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.
:target: https://travis-ci.org/buriy/python-readability
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 <http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/>`__.
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'
Change Log
----------
- 0.7 Improved HTML5 tags handling. Heuristics were changed for a lot of sites: Fixed an important
bug with 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
and 3.4
- 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 <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>`__ license.
Thanks to
---------
- Latest
`readability.js <https://github.com/MHordecki/readability-redux/blob/master/readability/readability.js>`__
- Ruby port by starrhorne and iterationlabs
- `Python port <https://github.com/gfxmonk/python-readability>`__ 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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