soup-strainer
A reimplementation of the Readability/Decruft algorithm using BeautifulSoup and html5lib (by rcarmo)
trafilatura
Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments (by adbar)
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| 10.0 | 8.7 | |
| about 10 years ago | 1 day ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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soup-strainer
Posts with mentions or reviews of soup-strainer.
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How does Firefox's Reader View work?
I implemented a variation of the Readability algorithm some 9 years ago, in case anyone needs a server-side Python version and is interested in dragging it (kicking and screaming) into the 2020s:
https://github.com/rcarmo/soup-strainer
trafilatura
Posts with mentions or reviews of trafilatura.
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Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web
The feature list answers that question pretty well: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura#features
Basically: you could implement all of this on top of BeautifulSoup - polite crawling policies, sitemap and feed parsing, URL de-duplication, parallel processing, download queues, heuristics for extracting just the main article content, metadata extraction, language detection... but it would require writing an enormous amount of extra code.
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Show HN: Build AI Dags with Memory; Run and Validate LLM Tools in Containers
The WebScraper tool uses Trafilatura [1] to scrape and parse HTML—nothing too fancy. "Scraping" a React site would require a totally different approach, probably something more akin to Adept's ACT-1 [2].
I run a local chat app built with Griptape and I use it to give me summaries of web pages or answer specific questions all the time :)
1. https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/
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Powerful and free scraper with a headless browser under the hood and Readability for parsing
I've been playing with Trafilatura lately, and it's very good. There are a few very thorough comparisons to other projects and it really shines. It doesn't do anything headless from what I can tell, but it doesn't have to do the scraping itself. Maybe an option could be to use Playwright to scrape, then Trafilatura to parse. Food for thought.
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I made a Chrome Extension that lets you ask any question about the page you are on (bluf.ai)
Cool! If you care to explain me further... :) ... I tried parsing a page using: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura, json stringify it and passing it to https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/embeddings/create. How do I use the response as an input later? <3
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Testing fast installation in tear-down environment
I want to test how easy it is to install a package plus special extra dependencies to run a certain script in that package: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura
- Advice on standard design pattern for comparison test script
- Automate dependency installation
- Issue with sklearn
- Questions about some code
- How does Firefox's Reader View work?