Top 3 Python article-extractor Projects

trafilatura

13 2,778 8.7 Python

Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments

Project mention: Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-14

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.

sneakpeek

3 101 10.0 Python

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Google-Docs-To-Clean-HTML

1 5 9.1 Python

A Google Docs HTML Cleaner: This program transforms messy HTML from Google Docs into clean code primarily using LXML with a modular mixin design pattern.

Project mention: Google Docs HTML Cleaner Open-Source Project | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-24

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