Sherlock VS datefinder

Compare Sherlock vs datefinder and see what are their differences.

datefinder

Find dates inside text using Python and get back datetime objects (by akoumjian)
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Sherlock datefinder
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2.0 0.0
10 months ago about 1 year ago
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MIT License MIT License
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Sherlock

Posts with mentions or reviews of Sherlock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-07.

datefinder

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  • Sneller Regex vs Ripgrep
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 May 2023
    That's with DFA minimization. Also, '\w' has 311 states while '(?-u)\w' has 5 states.

    I don't have a precise definition of enormous or impractical. Does it matter? I suppose one obvious one is when DFA construction time starts having a significant impact on total search times.

    > Additionally, the results are not the same: the number of matches is not equal to 7882. How could I make `\w` conform to other regex implementations in ripgrep?

    By following UTS#18: https://unicode.org/reports/tr18/#word

    Most regex engines make \w be ASCII-only by default. But most also have a way to opt into Unicode-aware mode. RE2, Go's regexp and ECMAScript are popular regex engines that have no way to change the interpretation of \w.

    > Fair question how regex compilers handle nefarious regexes. Go does not handle NFA with more than 1000 states, and, as you observed, we added some more restrictions when processing the NFA. It can be an interesting academic exercise to find monstrous regexes, but we haven't encountered useful regexes that hit these limits. But I guess you know some...

    It's definitely not academic. People use regexes for lexers. People use big regexes to recognize certain things like email addresses and dates. Here's a real regex used in real software to identify dates in unstructured text for example: https://github.com/akoumjian/datefinder/blob/5376ece0a522c44...

    Otherwise, as I hinted at above, the thing that can make regexes very large very quickly is when you mix Unicode classes with counted repetitions. It doesn't take a lot to make them "big."

  • Is there a Python library for reading human-written times?
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 23 Sep 2021
  • Tuesday Daily Thread: Advanced questions
    2 projects | /r/Python | 27 Apr 2021
    Looking at this issue it seems a recent pull request should fix the strict mode problem. That said, the pull request is still open due to a failing test so you can either build from source with the pull request or looking at the comments in the issue, look at dateparser as is mentioned. It might suit your needs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Sherlock and datefinder you can also consider the following projects:

datetime-rs - Rust date and time library

dateparser - python parser for human readable dates

js-joda - :clock2: Immutable date and time library for javascript

timefhuman - Convert natural language date-like strings--dates, date ranges, and lists of dates--to Python objects

nlp_compromise - modest natural-language processing

Giveme5W1H - Extraction of the journalistic five W and one H questions (5W1H) from news articles: who did what, when, where, why, and how?

pyate - PYthon Automated Term Extraction

dayjs - ⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API

sneller - World's fastest log analysis: λ + SQL + JSON + S3

You-Dont-Need-Momentjs - List of functions which you can use to replace moment.js + ESLint Plugin

Crafting Interpreters - Repository for the book "Crafting Interpreters"