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Heuristic based boilerplate removal tool

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.. _jusText: http://code.google.com/p/justext/ .. _Python: http://www.python.org/ .. _lxml: http://lxml.de/

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Program jusText is a tool for removing boilerplate content, such as navigation links, headers, and footers from HTML pages. It is designed <doc/algorithm.rst>_ to preserve mainly text containing full sentences and it is therefore well suited for creating linguistic resources such as Web corpora. You can try it online <http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/projects/justext/>_.

This is a fork of original (currently unmaintained) code of jusText_ hosted on Google Code.

Adaptations of the algorithm to other languages:

  • C++ <https://github.com/endredy/jusText>_
  • Go <https://github.com/JalfResi/justext>_
  • Java <https://github.com/wizenoze/justext-java>_

Some libraries using jusText:

  • chirp <https://github.com/9b/chirp>_
  • lazynlp <https://github.com/chiphuyen/lazynlp>_
  • off-topic-memento-toolkit <https://github.com/oduwsdl/off-topic-memento-toolkit>_
  • pears <https://github.com/PeARSearch/PeARS-orchard>_
  • readability calculator <https://github.com/joaopalotti/readabilitycalculator>
  • sky <https://github.com/kootenpv/sky>_

Some currently (Jan 2020) maintained alternatives:

  • dragnet <https://github.com/dragnet-org/dragnet>_
  • html2text <https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text>_
  • inscriptis <https://github.com/weblyzard/inscriptis>_
  • newspaper <https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper>_
  • python-readability <https://github.com/buriy/python-readability>_
  • trafilatura <https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura>_

Installation


Make sure you have Python 2.7+/3.5+ and pip <https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/> (Windows <http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/win/>_, Linux <http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/linux/>_) installed. Run simply:

.. code-block:: bash

$ [sudo] pip install justext

Dependencies


::

lxml (version depends on your Python version)

Usage


.. code-block:: bash

$ python -m justext -s Czech -o text.txt http://www.zdrojak.cz/clanky/automaticke-zabezpeceni/ $ python -m justext -s English -o plaintext.txt englishpage.html $ python -m justext --help # for more info

Python API


.. code-block:: python

import requests import justext

response = requests.get("http://planet.python.org/") paragraphs = justext.justext(response.content, justext.get_stoplist("English")) for paragraph in paragraphs: if not paragraph.is_boilerplate: print paragraph.text

Testing


Run tests via

.. code-block:: bash

$ py.test-2.7 && py.test-3.5 && py.test-3.6 && py.test-3.7 && py.test-3.8 && py.test-3.9

Acknowledgements


.. _Natural Language Processing Centre: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/en/nlpc .. _Masaryk University in Brno: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/en .. _PRESEMT: http://presemt.eu/ .. _Lexical Computing Ltd.: http://lexicalcomputing.com/ .. PhD research: http://is.muni.cz/th/45523/fid/phdthesis.pdf

This software has been developed at the Natural Language Processing Centre_ of Masaryk University in Brno with a financial support from PRESEMT and Lexical Computing Ltd. It also relates to PhD research of Jan PomikΓ‘lek.

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