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.
It's easy using pip, just run:
$ pip install readability-lxml
>> import requests
>> from readability import Document
>>
>> response = requests.get('http://example.com')
>> doc = Document(response.text)
>> doc.title()
>> 'Example Domain'
- 0.3 Added Document.encoding, positive_keywords and negative_keywords
- 0.4 Added Videos loading and allowed more images per paragraph
- 0.5 Preparing a release to support Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4
- 0.6 Finally a release which supports Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4
This code is under the Apache License 2.0 license.
- 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.