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Trafilatura is a Python package and command-line tool designed to gather text on the Web. It includes discovery, extraction and text-processing components. Its main applications are web crawling, downloads, scraping, and extraction of main texts, metadata and comments. It aims at staying handy and modular: no database is required, the output can be converted to various commonly used formats. Going from raw HTML to essential parts can alleviate many problems related to text quality, first by...

Newspaper4k is a Python library designed for extracting, processing, and analyzing news articles from websites. It is a continuation and active fork of the original newspaper3k library, which had stopped receiving updates, with the goal of keeping the ecosystem maintained while adding improvements and bug fixes. It provides developers with tools to automatically download web pages, extract the main article content, and collect associated metadata such as titles, authors, images, and publication dates. ...

...It works by taking a starting URL and systematically following links across the site, capturing pages and resources and saving them into WARC archive files for long-term preservation. Internally, the crawler uses a fork of the wpull engine to fetch and process web pages efficiently during large-scale crawls. grab-site includes a built-in dashboard that displays real-time crawl activity, including which URLs are currently being processed and how many remain in the queue. Users can dynamically apply ignore patterns during an active crawl, allowing them to skip problematic or unnecessary URLs that could slow down or block the archiving process. grab-site also provides predefined ignore sets for common site structures such as forums and other complex web platforms. ...