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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 avoiding the noise caused by recurring elements (headers, footers, links/blogroll etc.) and second by including information such as author and date in order to make sense of the data. ...

...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. Newspaper4k also includes natural language processing capabilities that can generate summaries and identify keywords from extracted article text. Newspaper4k supports both single-article extraction and full news site processing, allowing users to build sources representing entire publications and iterate through their articles. It maintains compatibility with the original project so that existing code written for newspaper3k can continue working with minimal changes.

news-please is an open source news crawler and information extraction tool designed to collect and structure articles from online news websites. It provides an integrated pipeline that crawls news sites, retrieves article pages, and extracts structured information such as headlines, authors, publication dates, and article text. news-please can recursively follow internal links and read RSS feeds to gather both recent and archived articles from a news outlet when given only the root URL of a site. ...

Dude is a very simple framework for writing web scrapers using Python decorators. The design, inspired by Flask, was to easily build a web scraper in just a few lines of code. Dude has an easy-to-learn syntax. Dude is currently in Pre-Alpha. Please expect breaking changes. You can run your scraper from terminal/shell/command-line by supplying URLs, the output filename of your choice and the paths to your python scripts to dude scrape command.