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How can I identify primary article text when scraping news pages
I suspect this is a hard problem and that deep learning is the state of the art. But maybe I'm missing something?
Just to be clear, given the html of a wapo article I want to discard all the affiliate links/comments and focus on the article text. I want a generalized solution for many blogs and news sites.
Any tips?
- tlack 6y agoI've had some good luck with "Unfluff"[0], a credible Node.js package that uses a cascade of logical conditions to figure out what to extract. It's a very practical start. I thought the science of it was called "envelope detection" but I'm not getting any relevant hits on that keyword. Will report back if I recall the name. [0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/unfluff https://www.npmjs.com/package/unfluff
- nmstoker 6y agoYou haven't give any details about programming language preferences but if you're interested in a Python approach then Newspaper3k is worth a look https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper