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readability_lxml
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This is a python port of a ruby port of `arc90's readability`_ project
Given a html document, it pulls out the main body text and cleans it up.
It also can clean up title based on latest readability.js code.
Inspiration
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- Latest readability.js ( https://github.com/MHordecki/readability-redux/blob/master/readability/readability.js )
- Ruby port by starrhorne and iterationlabs
- Python port by gfxmonk ( https://github.com/gfxmonk/python-readability , based on BeautifulSoup )
- Decruft effort to move to lxml ( http://www.minvolai.com/blog/decruft-arc90s-readability-in-python/ )
- "BR to P" fix from readability.js which improves quality for smaller texts.
- Github users contributions.
Try it out!
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You can try out the parser by entering your test urls on the following test
service.
http://readable.bmark.us
Installation
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::
$ easy_install readability-lxml
# or
$ pip install readability-lxml
Usage
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Command Line Client
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::
$ readability http://pypi.python.org/pypi/readability-lxml
$ readability /home/rharding/sampledoc.html
As a Library
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::
from readability.readability import Document
import urllib
html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
readable_article = Document(html).summary()
readable_title = Document(html).short_title()
You can also use the `get_summary_with_metadata` method to get back other
metadata such as the confidence score found while processing the input.
::
doc = Document(html).summary_with_metadata()
print doc.html
print doc.confidence
Optional `Document` keyword argument:
- attributes:
- debug: output debug messages
- min_text_length:
- multipage: should we try to parse and combine multiple page articles?
- retry_length:
- url: will allow adjusting links to be absolute
Test and BUild Status
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Tests are run against the package at:
http://build.bmark.us/job/readability-lxml/
You can view it for build history and test status.
History
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- `0.2.5` Update setup.py for uploading .tar.gz to pypi
.. _arc90's readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/