Newspaper: Article scraping & curation Inspired by requests for its simplicity and powered by lxml for its speed: "Newspaper is an amazing python library for extracting & curating articles." -- tweeted by Kenneth Reitz, Author of requests "Newspaper delivers Instapaper style article extraction." -- The Changelog This is newspaper's Python2 branch ! Or, view the Python3 branch A Glance: >>> from newspaper import Article >>> url = u ' http://fox13now.com/2013/12/30/new-year-new-laws-obamacare-pot-guns-and-drones/ ' >>> article = Article(url) >>> article.download() >>> article.html u'<!DOCTYPE HTML><html itemscope itemtype="http://...' >>> article.parse() >>> article.authors [u'Leigh Ann Caldwell', u'John Honway'] >>> article.publish_date datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 30, 0, 0) >>> article.text u'Washington (CNN) -- Not everyone subscribes to a New Year's resolution...' >>> article.top_image u'http://someCDN.com/blah/blah/blah/file.png' >>> article.movies [u'http://youtube.com/path/to/link.com', ...] >>> article.nlp() >>> article.keywords [u'New Years', u'resolution', ...] >>> article.summary u'The study shows that 93% of people ...' >>> import newspaper >>> cnn_paper = newspaper.build( u ' http://cnn.com ' ) >>> for article in cnn_paper.articles: >>> print (article.url) http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/27/justice/tucson-arizona-captive-girls/ http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/us/texas-teen-dwi-wreck/index.html ... >>> for category in cnn_paper.category_urls(): >>> print (category) http://lifestyle.cnn.com http://cnn.com/world http://tech.cnn.com ... >>> cnn_article = cnn_paper.articles[ 0 ] >>> cnn_article.download() >>> cnn_article.parse() >>> cnn_article.nlp() ... >>> from newspaper import fulltext >>> html = requests.get( ... ).text >>> text = fulltext(html) Newspaper has seamless language extraction and detection. If no language is specified, Newspaper will attempt to auto detect a language. >>> from newspaper import Article >>> url = ' http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/12/121210_hongkong_politics.shtml ' >>> a = Article(url, language = ' zh ' ) # Chinese >>> a.download() >>> a.parse() >>> print (a.text[: 150 ]) 香港行政?官梁振英在各方?力下就其大宅的?章建 筑（僭建）??到立法?接受??，?向香港民?道?。 梁振英在星期二（12月10日）的答?大??始之? 在其演?中道?，但强?他在?章建筑??上?有??的 意?和?机。 一些?北京?????迎梁振英道?， 且???能?得香港民?接受，但?些??也??梁振英有 >>> print (a.title) 港特首梁振英就住宅?建事件道? If you are certain that an entire news source is in one language, go ahead and use the same api :) >>> import newspaper >>> sina_paper = newspaper.build( ' http://www.sina.com.cn/ ' , language = ' zh ' ) >>> for category in sina_paper.category_urls(): >>> print (category) http://health.sina.com.cn http://eladies.sina.com.cn http://english.sina.com ... >>> article = sina_paper.articles[ 0 ] >>> article.download() >>> article.parse() >>> print (article.text) 新浪武?汽??合 ?着汽?市?的日?成熟， ??的“集全家之力抱得???”的全???模式已然??， ?一??松的新? ?模式――金融??正逐步成??下消?者? ???最???的消?理念，他???，??新?的?? 模式?能在短期? ... >>> print (article.title) ?年?免0手?0利率 科???背金融?松?_武??市_武?汽 ??_新浪汽?_新浪? Documentation Check out The Documentation for full and detailed guides using newspaper. Interested in adding a new language for us? Refer to: Docs - Adding new languages Features Full Python3 and Python2 support Multi-threaded article download framework News url identification Text extraction from html Top image extraction from html All image extraction from html Keyword extraction from text Summary extraction from text Author extraction from text Google trending terms extraction Works in 10+ languages (English, Chinese, German, Arabic, ...) >>> import newspaper >>> newspaper.languages() Your available languages are: input code full name ar Arabic ru Russian nl Dutch de German en English es Spanish fr French it Italian ko Korean no Norwegian pt Portuguese sv Swedish hu Hungarian fi Finnish da Danish zh Chinese id Indonesian vi Vietnamese Get it now Installing newspaper is simple with pip . However, you will run into fixable issues if you are trying to install on ubuntu. Note that our Python3 package name is newspaper3k while our Python2 package name is newspaper . If you are on Debian / Ubuntu , install using the following: Python development version, needed for Python.h: $ sudo apt-get install python-dev lxml requirements: $ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev For PIL to recognize .jpg images: $ sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev Install the distribution via pip: $ pip install newspaper Download NLP related corpora: $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelucas/newspaper/master/download_corpora.py | python3 If you are on OSX , install using the following, you may use both homebrew or macports: $ brew install libxml2 libxslt $ brew install libtiff libjpeg webp little-cms2 $ pip install newspaper $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelucas/newspaper/master/download_corpora.py | python Otherwise , install with the following: NOTE: You will still most likely need to install the following libraries via your package manager PIL: libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev lxml: libxml2-dev libxslt-dev Python Development version: python-dev $ pip install newspaper $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelucas/newspaper/master/download_corpora.py | python Development Newspaper has two branches up for development. This branch is our Python2 codebase while our Python3 branch is located on master . If you'd like to contribute and hack on the newspaper project, feel free to clone a development version of this repository locally: git clone git://github.com/codelucas/newspaper.git Once you have a copy of the source, you can embed it in your Python package, or install it into your site-packages easily: $ pip install -r requirements.txt $ python setup.py install Feel free to give our testing suite a shot, everything is mocked!: $ python tests/unit_tests.py Planning on tweaking our full-text algorithm? Add the fulltext parameter: $ python tests/unit_tests.py fulltext Demo View a working online demo here: http://newspaper-demo.herokuapp.com LICENSE Authored and maintained by Lucas Ou-Yang . Parse.ly sponsored some work on newspaper, specifically focused on automatic extraction. Newspaper uses a lot of python-goose's parsing code. View their license here . Please feel free to email & contact me if you run into issues or just would like to talk about the future of this library and news extraction in general!
