Name: Newspaper3k
Author: codelucas

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Pulling clean article text and metadata out of news pages without writing a parser per publisher.

Use it when

Use it when you have article URLs or a news site and need structured text, metadata and summaries in Python.

Not the right pick when

It extracts rather than discovers, so finding articles across publications needs a separate search step.

Capabilities

Article download, parse and nlp pipeline
extracts authors, publish_date, text, top_image and movies
keywords and summary from article.nlp
newspaper.build crawls a source and lists its articles and category urls
fulltext helper for extracting from raw HTML
multi-lingual extraction with automatic language detection

Requirements

Python 3, since the Python 2 branch is described as deprecated and buggy

Cost: Free and open source

Install

Derived from the published package name in the repository, not from a model.

Video walkthroughs

Scrape and Summarize News Articles with Newspaper3k | Data Science for Media Bias Detection #4

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What the repository ships

Has testsHas docs

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Latest release 0.0.9

Published 2014-12-17

This codebase is what will be installed after running pip install newspaper on python 2.

Besides bugfixes, support for python 2 ends at this tag.

README

Newspaper3k: Article scraping & curation

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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

Multi-lingual

=============

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

Scraping by topic: where do the URLs come from?

===============================================

`newspaper.build()` is perfect when you know which sites to crawl. But the other question I get constantly is: "I want every article about X, across all publications — where do I get the URLs?" The answer is to search Google News for your keyword first, then feed the result links straight into newspaper for extraction.

The easiest way to query Google News programmatically is the Google News API_ from SerpApi - Search API_ (they also cover Google Search, Google Maps, and more). The two libraries snap together in a few lines:

.. code-block:: python

# pip3 install google-search-results

from serpapi import GoogleSearch

from newspaper import Article

search = GoogleSearch({

"engine": "google_news",

"q": "electric vehicles",

"api_key": "YOUR_SERPAPI_KEY", # free plan at serpapi.com

})

for result in search.get_dict()["news_results"]:

article = Article(result["link"])

article.download()

article.parse()

article.nlp()

print(article.title, "--", article.summary[:120])

This pattern of SerpApi for discovery, newspaper3k for extraction, is how most production news-monitoring pipelines are built, and it sidesteps writing a crawler for every source you care about.

.. _SerpApi - Search API: https://serpapi.com?utm_source=newspaper3k_github

.. _Google News API: https://serpapi.com/google-news-api?utm_source=newspaper3k_github

Scraping at scale: avoiding IP blocks

=====================================

Once you move past scraping a handful of articles, you'll hit the same wall every news scraper hits: 403s, captchas, rate limits, and silent shadow bans. Your code is fine — your IP is the problem. The fix is rotating residential proxies.

I personally route my own newspaper3k pipelines through Swiftproxy_ — 80M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries, a 99.89% success rate, non-expiring traffic, and a free trial so you can pressure-test it before paying. Plugging it into newspaper3k takes about four lines:

.. code-block:: python

from newspaper import Article, Config

config = Config()

config.proxies = {

'http': 'http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gate.swiftproxy.net:7777',

'https': 'http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gate.swiftproxy.net:7777',

}

# a real browser UA helps too

config.browser_user_agent = (

'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) '

'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '

'Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'

)

config.request_timeout = 20

article = Article('https://example.com/some-news-story', config=config)

article.download()

article.parse()

print(article.title)

The same `config object works with newspaper.build()` — every article fetched by the source will rotate through residential IPs automatically:

.. code-block:: python

import newspaper

paper = newspaper.build('http://cnn.com', config=config, memoize_articles=False)

for article in paper.articles:

article.download()

article.parse()

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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`.

Download NLP related corpora::

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

Install the distribution via pip::

$ pip3 install newspaper3k

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

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/

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Newspaper3k

Market and trust evidence

In practice

Use it when

Not the right pick when

Capabilities

Requirements

Install

Video walkthroughs

Scrape and Summarize News Articles with Newspaper3k | Data Science for Media Bias Detection #4

Newspaper3k – How to Generate a Word Cloud in Python

What the repository ships

Latest release 0.0.9

Tags

README

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