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extruct

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0.17.0 (29 May 2024) Oct 27 2015 493.2 thousand (month)

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.

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) 

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