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extruct is a library for extracting embedded metadata from HTML markup.

Currently, extruct supports:

  • W3C's HTML Microdata
  • embedded JSON-LD
  • Microformat via mf2py
  • Facebook's Open Graph
  • (experimental) RDFa via rdflib
  • Dublin Core Metadata (DC-HTML-2003)

Extruct is a brilliant data parser for schema.org marked up websites (many modern websites) and is an easy way to extract popular details like product information, company contact details etc.

newspaper is a Python package that allows developers to easily extract text, images, and videos from articles on the web.

It is designed to be fast, easy to use, and compatible with a wide variety of websites. It uses advanced algorithms to extract relevant information and metadata from articles, and it also supports several languages.

newspaper includes a http client or can ingest pre-scraped HTML documents.

Example Use


# retrieve HTML content
import httpx

response = httpx.get('https://webscraping.fyi/lib/python/extruct')

import extruct

all_data = extruct.extract(response.text, response.url)

# or we can extract specific metadata format by importing individuals extractors:


extractor = extruct.MicrodataExtractor()
microdata = extractor.extract(response.text)

extractor = extruct.JsonLdExtractor()
jsonld = extractor.extract(response.text) 
from newspaper import Article

# Create a new article object
article = Article('https://www.example.com/article')

# Download the article
article.download()

# Parse the article
article.parse()

# Print the article text
print(article.text)

# Print the article title
print(article.title)

# Print the article authors
print(article.authors)

# Print the article publication date
print(article.publish_date)

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