.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/buriy/python-readability.svg?branch=master :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 `__. Installation ------------ It's easy using ``pip``, just run: .. code-block:: bash $ pip install readability-lxml Usage ----- .. code-block:: python >>> import requests >>> from readability import Document >>> response = requests.get('http://example.com') >>> doc = Document(response.text) >>> doc.title() 'Example Domain' >>> doc.summary() """
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""" Change Log ---------- - 0.8beta Replaced XHTML output with HTML5 output in summary() call. - 0.7.1 Support for Python 3.7 . Fixed a slowdown when processing documents with lots of spaces. - 0.7 Improved HTML5 tags handling. Fixed 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 - 3.6 - 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 `__ license. Thanks to --------- - Latest `readability.js `__ - Ruby port by starrhorne and iterationlabs - `Python port `__ by gfxmonk - `Decruft effort ` to move to lxml - "BR to P" fix from readability.js which improves quality for smaller texts - Github users contributions.