fast html to text parser (article readability tool) with python 3 support
Given an HTML document, extract and clean up the main body text and title.
This is a Python port of a Ruby port of arc90's Readability project.
It's easy using pip, just run:
$ pip install readability-lxml
As an alternative, you may also use conda to install, just run:
$ conda install -c conda-forge readability-lxml
>>> import requests
>>> from readability import Document
>>> response = requests.get('http://example.com')
>>> doc = Document(response.content)
>>> 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>"""
This code is under the Apache License 2.0 license.
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fast html to text parser (article readability tool) with python 3 support
We found that readability-lxml demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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