htmldate | robust date extraction from web pages | Scraper library

by adbar Python Version: 1.8.1 License: GPL-3.0

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kandi X-RAY | htmldate Summary

htmldate is a Python library typically used in Automation, Scraper applications. htmldate has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can install using 'pip install htmldate' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.

Fast and robust date extraction from web pages, with Python or on the command-line

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htmldate has a low active ecosystem.

It has 70 star(s) with 19 fork(s). There are 4 watchers for this library.

There were 5 major release(s) in the last 6 months.

There are 4 open issues and 30 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 71 days. There are no pull requests.

It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.

The latest version of htmldate is 1.8.1

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htmldate has 0 bugs and 0 code smells.

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htmldate has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.

htmldate code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities.

There are 0 security hotspots that need review.

License

htmldate is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. This license is Strong Copyleft.

Strong Copyleft licenses enforce sharing, and you can use them when creating open source projects.

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htmldate releases are available to install and integrate.

Deployable package is available in PyPI.

Build file is available. You can build the component from source.

htmldate saves you 184510 person hours of effort in developing the same functionality from scratch.

It has 512677 lines of code, 82 functions and 522 files.

It has high code complexity. Code complexity directly impacts maintainability of the code.

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Process command line arguments
Compares a reference
Find the date of the given HTML object
Analyze HTML string
Parse command line arguments
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Community Discussions

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Extract date from multiple webpages with Python

Problems using htmldate with Python

QUESTION

Extract date from multiple webpages with Python

Asked 2020-Dec-05 at 00:52

I want to extract date when news article was published on websites. For some websites I have exact html element where date/time is (div, p, time) but on some websites I do not have:

These are the links for some websites (german websites):

(3 Nov 2020) http://www.linden.ch/de/aktuelles/aktuellesinformationen/?action=showinfo&info_id=1074226

(Dec. 1, 2020) http://www.reutigen.ch/de/aktuelles/aktuellesinformationen/welcome.php?action=showinfo&info_id=1066837&ls=0&sq=&kategorie_id=&date_from=&date_to=

(10/22/2020) http://buchholterberg.ch/de/Gemeinde/Information/News/Newsmeldung?filterCategory=22&newsid=905

I have tried 3 different solutions with Python libs such as requests, htmldate and date_guesser but I'm always getting None, or in case of htmldate lib, I always get same date (2020.1.1)

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ANSWER

Answered 2020-Dec-05 at 00:52

I have never had much success with some of the date parsing libraries, so I usually go another route. I believe that the best method to extract the date strings from these sites in your question is with regular expressions.

website: linden.ch

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65095206

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Problems using htmldate with Python

Asked 2020-Jul-20 at 19:10

I'm trying to develop a small script with Python in Anaconda to use htmldate, and when I try to run it I have some errors:

The code is this one:

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ANSWER

Answered 2020-Jul-20 at 17:16

For some reason the python cannot find the lml package.

To fix this, try uninstall and then install lxml:

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62999283

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Vulnerabilities

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Install htmldate

You can install using 'pip install htmldate' or download it from GitHub, PyPI.
You can use htmldate like any standard Python library. You will need to make sure that you have a development environment consisting of a Python distribution including header files, a compiler, pip, and git installed. Make sure that your pip, setuptools, and wheel are up to date. When using pip it is generally recommended to install packages in a virtual environment to avoid changes to the system.

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