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Quick Overview

Newspaper is a Python library for extracting and curating articles from news websites. It provides tools for web scraping, content extraction, and natural language processing to help developers easily gather and analyze news content programmatically.

Pros

  • Easy-to-use API for extracting article content, metadata, and images
  • Supports multiple languages and handles various encoding issues
  • Includes built-in caching to improve performance and reduce load on target websites
  • Offers natural language processing features like keyword extraction and summary generation

Cons

  • May struggle with some complex or dynamically generated web pages
  • Occasional inaccuracies in content extraction, especially for non-standard article layouts
  • Limited customization options for fine-tuning the extraction process
  • Dependency on external libraries may lead to compatibility issues in some environments

Code Examples

  1. Extracting an article:
from newspaper import Article

url = 'http://example.com/article'
article = Article(url)
article.download()
article.parse()

print(article.title)
print(article.text)
  1. Extracting multiple articles from a news source:
from newspaper import Source

cnn_paper = Source('http://cnn.com')
cnn_paper.build()

for article in cnn_paper.articles[:5]:
    article.download()
    article.parse()
    print(article.title)
  1. Using natural language processing features:
from newspaper import Article

article = Article('http://example.com/article')
article.download()
article.parse()
article.nlp()

print(article.summary)
print(article.keywords)

Getting Started

To get started with Newspaper, follow these steps:

  1. Install the library using pip:

    pip install newspaper3k

  2. Import the necessary modules in your Python script:

    from newspaper import Article, Source

  3. Use the Article class to extract content from a single article:

    article = Article('http://example.com/article')
article.download()
article.parse()
print(article.title)
print(article.text)

  4. For more advanced features, refer to the library's documentation and examples.

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  • Built-in support for crawling and scraping multiple news websites
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Cons of news-please

  • Slower processing speed compared to Newspaper
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  • More complex setup and configuration

Code Comparison

news-please:

from newsplease import NewsPlease

article = NewsPlease.from_url('https://www.example.com/article')
print(article.title, article.authors, article.date_publish)

Newspaper:

from newspaper import Article

article = Article('https://www.example.com/article')
article.download()
article.parse()
print(article.title, article.authors, article.publish_date)

Both libraries offer similar functionality for extracting article content and metadata. However, news-please provides more detailed metadata extraction out of the box, while Newspaper focuses on simplicity and speed. news-please is better suited for large-scale news crawling projects, while Newspaper is ideal for quick and straightforward article parsing tasks.

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Cons of python-readability

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  • Less active development and community support

Code Comparison

python-readability:

from readability import Document
import requests

response = requests.get('http://example.com')
doc = Document(response.text)
print(doc.summary())
print(doc.title())

newspaper:

from newspaper import Article

article = Article('http://example.com')
article.download()
article.parse()
print(article.text)
print(article.title)

Both libraries offer simple ways to extract content from web pages, but newspaper provides a more comprehensive set of features for article parsing and natural language processing. python-readability focuses primarily on content extraction and readability improvement, while newspaper offers additional functionality like keyword extraction, summarization, and language detection.

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Cons of python-goose

  • Less actively maintained, with fewer recent updates
  • Smaller community and fewer contributors
  • More complex setup and usage compared to newspaper

Code Comparison

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from newspaper import Article

url = 'http://example.com/article'
article = Article(url)
article.download()
article.parse()

print(article.title)
print(article.text)

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from goose3 import Goose

url = 'http://example.com/article'
g = Goose()
article = g.extract(url=url)

print(article.title)
print(article.cleaned_text)

Both libraries offer similar functionality for extracting article content, but newspaper provides a more streamlined API. python-goose requires initializing a Goose object before extraction, while newspaper allows direct creation of Article objects. The method names differ slightly, with newspaper using parse() and python-goose using extract(). Overall, newspaper's API is more intuitive and easier to use for basic article extraction tasks.

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  • Less specialized for news article extraction compared to Newspaper
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  • May require more manual configuration for specific use cases

Code Comparison

requests-html:

from requests_html import HTMLSession
session = HTMLSession()
r = session.get('https://python.org/')
r.html.render()
print(r.html.find('title', first=True).text)

Newspaper:

from newspaper import Article
article = Article('http://cnn.com/2014/01/01/world/asia/japan-whale-hunt/index.html')
article.download()
article.parse()
print(article.title)

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README

Newspaper3k: Article scraping & curation

.. image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/newspaper3k.svg :target: http://badge.fury.io/py/newspaper3k.svg :alt: Latest version

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Inspired by requests_ for its simplicity and powered by lxml_ for its speed:

"Newspaper is an amazing python library for extracting & curating articles."
-- `tweeted by`_ Kenneth Reitz, Author of `requests`_

"Newspaper delivers Instapaper style article extraction." -- `The Changelog`_

.. _tweeted by: https://twitter.com/kennethreitz/status/419520678862548992 .. _The Changelog: http://thechangelog.com/newspaper-delivers-instapaper-style-article-extraction/

Newspaper is a Python3 library! Or, view our deprecated and buggy Python2 branch_

.. _Python2 branch: https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper/tree/python-2-head

A Glance:

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> from newspaper import Article

>>> url = 'http://fox13now.com/2013/12/30/new-year-new-laws-obamacare-pot-guns-and-drones/'
>>> article = Article(url)

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> article.download()

>>> article.html
'<!DOCTYPE HTML><html itemscope itemtype="http://...'

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> article.parse()

>>> article.authors
['Leigh Ann Caldwell', 'John Honway']

>>> article.publish_date
datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 30, 0, 0)

>>> article.text
'Washington (CNN) -- Not everyone subscribes to a New Year's resolution...'

>>> article.top_image
'http://someCDN.com/blah/blah/blah/file.png'

>>> article.movies
['http://youtube.com/path/to/link.com', ...]

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> article.nlp()

>>> article.keywords
['New Years', 'resolution', ...]

>>> article.summary
'The study shows that 93% of people ...'

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> import newspaper

>>> cnn_paper = newspaper.build('http://cnn.com')

>>> for article in cnn_paper.articles:
>>>     print(article.url)
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/27/justice/tucson-arizona-captive-girls/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/us/texas-teen-dwi-wreck/index.html
...

>>> for category in cnn_paper.category_urls():
>>>     print(category)

http://lifestyle.cnn.com
http://cnn.com/world
http://tech.cnn.com
...

>>> cnn_article = cnn_paper.articles[0]
>>> cnn_article.download()
>>> cnn_article.parse()
>>> cnn_article.nlp()
...

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> from newspaper import fulltext

>>> html = requests.get(...).text
>>> text = fulltext(html)

Newspaper can extract and detect languages seamlessly. If no language is specified, Newspaper will attempt to auto detect a language.

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> from newspaper import Article
>>> url = 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2012/12/121210_hongkong_politics.shtml'

>>> a = Article(url, language='zh') # Chinese

>>> a.download()
>>> a.parse()

>>> print(a.text[:150])
香港行政长官梁振英在各方压力下就其大宅的违章建
筑（僭建）问题到立法会接受质询，并向香港民众道歉。
梁振英在星期二（12月10日）的答问大会开始之际
在其演说中道歉，但强调他在违章建筑问题上没有隐瞒的
意图和动机。 一些亲北京阵营议员欢迎梁振英道歉，
且认为应能获得香港民众接受，但这些议员也质问梁振英有

>>> print(a.title)
港特首梁振英就住宅违建事件道歉

If you are certain that an entire news source is in one language, go ahead and use the same api :)

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> import newspaper
>>> sina_paper = newspaper.build('http://www.sina.com.cn/', language='zh')

>>> for category in sina_paper.category_urls():
>>>     print(category)
http://health.sina.com.cn
http://eladies.sina.com.cn
http://english.sina.com
...

>>> article = sina_paper.articles[0]
>>> article.download()
>>> article.parse()

>>> print(article.text)
新浪武汉汽车综合 随着汽车市场的日趋成熟，
传统的“集全家之力抱得爱车归”的全额购车模式已然过时，
另一种轻松的新兴 车模式――金融购车正逐步成为时下消费者购
买爱车最为时尚的消费理念，他们认为，这种新颖的购车
模式既能在短期内
...

>>> print(article.title)
两年双免0手续0利率 科鲁兹掀背金融轻松购_武汉车市_武汉汽
车网_新浪汽车_新浪网

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Docs

Check out The Docs_ for full and detailed guides using newspaper.

Interested in adding a new language for us? Refer to: Docs - Adding new languages <https://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/advanced.html#adding-new-languages>_

Features

  • Multi-threaded article download framework
  • News url identification
  • Text extraction from html
  • Top image extraction from html
  • All image extraction from html
  • Keyword extraction from text
  • Summary extraction from text
  • Author extraction from text
  • Google trending terms extraction
  • Works in 10+ languages (English, Chinese, German, Arabic, ...)

.. code-block:: pycon

>>> import newspaper
>>> newspaper.languages()

Your available languages are:
input code      full name

  ar              Arabic
  be              Belarusian
  bg              Bulgarian
  da              Danish
  de              German
  el              Greek
  en              English
  es              Spanish
  et              Estonian
  fa              Persian
  fi              Finnish
  fr              French
  he              Hebrew
  hi              Hindi
  hr              Croatian
  hu              Hungarian
  id              Indonesian
  it              Italian
  ja              Japanese
  ko              Korean
  lt              Lithuanian
  mk              Macedonian
  nb              Norwegian (Bokmål)
  nl              Dutch
  no              Norwegian
  pl              Polish
  pt              Portuguese
  ro              Romanian
  ru              Russian
  sl              Slovenian
  sr              Serbian
  sv              Swedish
  sw              Swahili
  th              Thai
  tr              Turkish
  uk              Ukrainian
  vi              Vietnamese
  zh              Chinese

Get it now

Run ✅ pip3 install newspaper3k ✅

NOT ⛔ pip3 install newspaper ⛔

On python3 you must install newspaper3k, not newspaper. newspaper is our python2 library. Although installing newspaper is simple with pip <http://www.pip-installer.org/>_, you will run into fixable issues if you are trying to install on ubuntu.

If you are on Debian / Ubuntu, install using the following:

  • Install pip3 command needed to install newspaper3k package::

    $ sudo apt-get install python3-pip

  • Python development version, needed for Python.h::

    $ sudo apt-get install python-dev

  • lxml requirements::

    $ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

  • For PIL to recognize .jpg images::

    $ sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev

NOTE: If you find problem installing libpng12-dev, try installing libpng-dev.

If you are on OSX, install using the following, you may use both homebrew or macports:

::

$ brew install libxml2 libxslt

$ brew install libtiff libjpeg webp little-cms2

$ pip3 install newspaper3k

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelucas/newspaper/master/download_corpora.py | python3

Otherwise, install with the following:

NOTE: You will still most likely need to install the following libraries via your package manager

  • PIL: libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev
  • lxml: libxml2-dev libxslt-dev
  • Python Development version: python-dev

::

$ pip3 install newspaper3k

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codelucas/newspaper/master/download_corpora.py | python3

Donations

Your donations are greatly appreciated! They will free me up to work on this project more, to take on things like: adding new features, bug-fix support, addressing concerns with the library.

  • My PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/codelucas_
  • My Venmo_ handle: @Lucas-Ou-Yang

Development

If you'd like to contribute and hack on the newspaper project, feel free to clone a development version of this repository locally::

git clone git://github.com/codelucas/newspaper.git

Once you have a copy of the source, you can embed it in your Python package, or install it into your site-packages easily::

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 setup.py install

Feel free to give our testing suite a shot, everything is mocked!::

$ python3 tests/unit_tests.py

Planning on tweaking our full-text algorithm? Add the fulltext parameter::

$ python3 tests/unit_tests.py fulltext

Demo

View a working online demo here: http://newspaper-demo.herokuapp.com

This is another working online demo: http://newspaper.chinazt.cc/

LICENSE

Authored and maintained by Lucas Ou-Yang_.

Parse.ly_ sponsored some work on newspaper, specifically focused on automatic extraction.

Newspaper uses a lot of python-goose's_ parsing code. View their license here_.

Please feel free to email & contact me_ if you run into issues or just would like to talk about the future of this library and news extraction in general!

.. _Lucas Ou-Yang: http://codelucas.com .. _email & contact me: mailto:lucasyangpersonal@gmail.com .. _python-goose's: https://github.com/grangier/python-goose .. _here: https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper/blob/master/GOOSE-LICENSE.txt

.. _https://www.paypal.me/codelucas: https://www.paypal.me/codelucas .. _Venmo: https://www.venmo.com/Lucas-Ou-Yang

.. _Quickstart guide: https://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ .. _The Docs: https://newspaper.readthedocs.io .. _lxml: http://lxml.de/ .. _requests: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests .. _Parse.ly: http://parse.ly .. _It takes only one click: https://tracking.gitads.io/?campaign=gitads&repo=newspaper&redirect=gitads.io