Newspaper3k: 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 Newspaper is a Python3 library ! Or, view our deprecated and buggy Python2 branch A Glance: >>> from newspaper import Article >>> url = ' http://fox13now.com/2013/12/30/new-year-new-laws-obamacare-pot-guns-and-drones/ ' >>> article = Article(url) >>> article.download() >>> article.html '<!DOCTYPE HTML><html itemscope itemtype="http://...' >>> article.parse() >>> article.authors ['Leigh Ann Caldwell', 'John Honway'] >>> article.publish_date datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 30, 0, 0) >>> article.text 'Washington (CNN) -- Not everyone subscribes to a New Year's resolution...' >>> article.top_image 'http://someCDN.com/blah/blah/blah/file.png' >>> article.movies ['http://youtube.com/path/to/link.com', ...] >>> article.nlp() >>> article.keywords ['New Years', 'resolution', ...] >>> article.summary 'The study shows that 93% of people ...' >>> import newspaper >>> cnn_paper = newspaper.build( ' 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 can extract and detect languages seamlessly . 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? Support our library It takes only one click Docs Check out The Docs for full and detailed guides using newspaper. Interested in adding a new language for us? Refer to: Docs - Adding new languages Features 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 be Belarusian bg Bulgarian da Danish de German el Greek en English es Spanish et Estonian fa Persian fi Finnish fr French he Hebrew hi Hindi hr Croatian hu Hungarian id Indonesian it Italian ja Japanese ko Korean lt Lithuanian mk Macedonian nb Norwegian (Bokmal) nl Dutch no Norwegian pl Polish pt Portuguese ro Romanian ru Russian sl Slovenian sr Serbian sv Swedish sw Swahili th Thai tr Turkish uk Ukrainian vi Vietnamese zh Chinese Get it now Run ? pip3 install newspaper3k ? NOT ? pip3 install newspaper ? On python3 you must install newspaper3k , not newspaper . newspaper is our python2 library. Although installing newspaper is simple with pip , you will run into fixable issues if you are trying to install on ubuntu. If you are on Debian / Ubuntu , install using the following: Install pip3 command needed to install newspaper3k package: $ sudo apt-get install python3-pip 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 NOTE: If you find problem installing libpng12-dev , try installing libpng-dev . Download NLP related corpora: $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelucas/newspaper/master/download_corpora.py | python3 Install the distribution via pip: $ pip3 install newspaper3k 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 $ pip3 install newspaper3k $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelucas/newspaper/master/download_corpora.py | python3 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 $ pip3 install newspaper3k $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelucas/newspaper/master/download_corpora.py | python3 Donations Your donations are greatly appreciated! They will free me up to work on this project more, to take on things like: adding new features, bug-fix support, addressing concerns with the library. My PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/codelucas My Venmo handle: @Lucas-Ou-Yang Development 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: $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt $ python3 setup.py install Feel free to give our testing suite a shot, everything is mocked!: $ python3 tests/unit_tests.py Planning on tweaking our full-text algorithm? Add the fulltext parameter: $ python3 tests/unit_tests.py fulltext Demo View a working online demo here: http://newspaper-demo.herokuapp.com This is another working online demo: http://newspaper.chinazt.cc/ 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!
