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web2feed: turn webpages into feeds

This is a script to turn any webpage into a feed. The program relies first on site-specific rules (for popular sites and detectable software packages), then on heuristics (TODO).

The premise is that RSS/Atom feeds often don't tell the whole story. We should be able to scrape any webpage for content regardless of what the author wants to make easily available.

Output is a list of dictionaries, but serializations (JSON, XML, RDF) will be supported. Additional options to be developed include advertisement/javascript removal, link/image/media isolation, etc.

Ultimately, this was written as a support package for Sylph, which aims to completely decentralize the web and take bootstrapped content with it. (Please read more about that and consider contributing.)

The following libraries are used:

  • BeautifulSoup
  • html5lib (for beautiful soup parser fixes)
  • simplejson

(A complete client would have no non-standard library dependencies.)

Sites/Blogs

Software

None yet

(Also, heuristic scraping hasn't even been started yet.)

Output format:

Output is a list of dictionaries, with the following keys:

  • uri
  • title
  • date, a python datetime object, but may not include a time component if the website didn't list the time
  • author, name of the author
  • contents and/or summary, which probably contain minor HTML such as <p> and <img>
  • contents_format and/or summary_format, which are either 'text/plain' or 'text/html'
  • contents_markdown and/or summary_markdown, which contains markdown-formatted version of the respective text

More will be added as I write code to support comments, etc. Also to be output is the type of page, the heuristics used, etc.

License

My code is licensed under the MIT and BSD licenses, however I have included Aaron Swartz' GPL-licensed html2text, which generates structured Markdown from HTML. Thus, to redistribute the code as-is, it must be under the GPL. (Removal of this feature should be very simple and straightforward, however.)

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Add copy buttons to all
 blocks\n(function() {\n function addCopyButtons() {\n document.querySelectorAll('pre code').forEach(function(codeBlock) {\n if (codeBlock.parentElement.hasAttribute('data-copy-added')) return;\n codeBlock.parentElement.setAttribute('data-copy-added', 'true');\n \n var btn = document.createElement('button');\n btn.textContent = 'Copy';\n btn.style.cssText = 'position:absolute;top:4px;right:4px;padding:2px 8px;font-size:11px;background:#4ecdc4;border:none;border-radius:4px;color:#1a1a2e;cursor:pointer;opacity:0.7;transition:opacity 0.2s;';\n btn.onmouseover = function() { this.style.opacity = '1'; };\n btn.onmouseout = function() { this.style.opacity = '0.7'; };\n btn.onclick = function() {\n navigator.clipboard.writeText(codeBlock.textContent).then(function() {\n btn.textContent = 'Copied!';\n setTimeout(function() { btn.textContent = 'Copy'; }, 1500);\n });\n };\n codeBlock.parentElement.style.position = 'relative';\n codeBlock.parentElement.appendChild(btn);\n });\n }\n \n addCopyButtons();\n \n // Re-run on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(addCopyButtons);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Add Copy Buttons to Code Blocks");
}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Add Copy Buttons to Code Blocks]', __e); }
})();
(function(){
try {
var __m = "github.com";
var __re = new RegExp('^' + "github\\.com" + '
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web2feed: turn webpages into feeds

This is a script to turn any webpage into a feed. The program relies first on site-specific rules (for popular sites and detectable software packages), then on heuristics (TODO).

The premise is that RSS/Atom feeds often don't tell the whole story. We should be able to scrape any webpage for content regardless of what the author wants to make easily available.

Output is a list of dictionaries, but serializations (JSON, XML, RDF) will be supported. Additional options to be developed include advertisement/javascript removal, link/image/media isolation, etc.

Ultimately, this was written as a support package for Sylph, which aims to completely decentralize the web and take bootstrapped content with it. (Please read more about that and consider contributing.)

The following libraries are used:

  • BeautifulSoup
  • html5lib (for beautiful soup parser fixes)
  • simplejson

(A complete client would have no non-standard library dependencies.)

Sites/Blogs

Software

None yet

(Also, heuristic scraping hasn't even been started yet.)

Output format:

Output is a list of dictionaries, with the following keys:

  • uri
  • title
  • date, a python datetime object, but may not include a time component if the website didn't list the time
  • author, name of the author
  • contents and/or summary, which probably contain minor HTML such as <p> and <img>
  • contents_format and/or summary_format, which are either 'text/plain' or 'text/html'
  • contents_markdown and/or summary_markdown, which contains markdown-formatted version of the respective text

More will be added as I write code to support comments, etc. Also to be output is the type of page, the heuristics used, etc.

License

My code is licensed under the MIT and BSD licenses, however I have included Aaron Swartz' GPL-licensed html2text, which generates structured Markdown from HTML. Thus, to redistribute the code as-is, it must be under the GPL. (Removal of this feature should be very simple and straightforward, however.)

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Force GitHub README to respect dark mode\n(function() {\n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '\n .markdown-body {\n color-scheme: dark light;\n }\n .markdown-body pre { background: #161b22 !important; }\n .markdown-body code { background: rgba(110, 118, 129, 0.4) !important; }\n .markdown-body table th, .markdown-body table td { border-color: #30363d !important; }\n .markdown-body img { background: #0d1117; }\n .markdown-body blockquote { border-left-color: #8b949e; }\n .markdown-body hr { border-color: #30363d; }\n ';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n})();", "GitHub Dark Mode README Fix"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:GitHub Dark Mode README Fix]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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web2feed: turn webpages into feeds

This is a script to turn any webpage into a feed. The program relies first on site-specific rules (for popular sites and detectable software packages), then on heuristics (TODO).

The premise is that RSS/Atom feeds often don't tell the whole story. We should be able to scrape any webpage for content regardless of what the author wants to make easily available.

Output is a list of dictionaries, but serializations (JSON, XML, RDF) will be supported. Additional options to be developed include advertisement/javascript removal, link/image/media isolation, etc.

Ultimately, this was written as a support package for Sylph, which aims to completely decentralize the web and take bootstrapped content with it. (Please read more about that and consider contributing.)

The following libraries are used:

  • BeautifulSoup
  • html5lib (for beautiful soup parser fixes)
  • simplejson

(A complete client would have no non-standard library dependencies.)

Sites/Blogs

Software

None yet

(Also, heuristic scraping hasn't even been started yet.)

Output format:

Output is a list of dictionaries, with the following keys:

  • uri
  • title
  • date, a python datetime object, but may not include a time component if the website didn't list the time
  • author, name of the author
  • contents and/or summary, which probably contain minor HTML such as <p> and <img>
  • contents_format and/or summary_format, which are either 'text/plain' or 'text/html'
  • contents_markdown and/or summary_markdown, which contains markdown-formatted version of the respective text

More will be added as I write code to support comments, etc. Also to be output is the type of page, the heuristics used, etc.

License

My code is licensed under the MIT and BSD licenses, however I have included Aaron Swartz' GPL-licensed html2text, which generates structured Markdown from HTML. Thus, to redistribute the code as-is, it must be under the GPL. (Removal of this feature should be very simple and straightforward, however.)

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Highlight search terms from Google/DuckDuckGo/Bing referrer\n(function() {\n var ref = document.referrer;\n var terms = [];\n \n if (ref.includes('google.com') || ref.includes('duckduckgo.com') || ref.includes('bing.com')) {\n var url = new URL(ref);\n var q = url.searchParams.get('q') || url.searchParams.get('p');\n if (q) {\n terms = q.split(/\\s+/).filter(function(t) { return t.length > 2; });\n }\n }\n \n if (terms.length === 0) return;\n \n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '.userscript-highlight { background: #fbbf24; color: #1a1a2e; padding: 1px 3px; border-radius: 2px; }';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n \n function highlight(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 3) { // text node\n var text = node.textContent;\n var found = false;\n terms.forEach(function(term) {\n var regex = new RegExp('(' + term.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\\]\\\\]/g, '\\\\') + ')', 'gi');\n if (regex.test(text)) {\n found = true;\n var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();\n var parts = text.split(regex);\n parts.forEach(function(part, i) {\n if (i % 2 === 0) {\n frag.appendChild(document.createTextNode(part));\n } else {\n var span = document.createElement('span');\n span.className = 'userscript-highlight';\n span.textContent = part;\n frag.appendChild(span);\n }\n });\n node.parentNode.replaceChild(frag, node);\n }\n });\n } else if (node.nodeType === 1 && node.childNodes) { // element\n var skipTags = ['SCRIPT', 'STYLE', 'NOSCRIPT', 'TEXTAREA', 'INPUT', 'SELECT'];\n if (!skipTags.includes(node.tagName)) {\n Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(highlight);\n }\n }\n }\n \n highlight(document.body);\n \n // Re-highlight on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1 || node.nodeType === 3) highlight(node);\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Highlight Search Terms"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Highlight Search Terms]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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web2feed: turn webpages into feeds

This is a script to turn any webpage into a feed. The program relies first on site-specific rules (for popular sites and detectable software packages), then on heuristics (TODO).

The premise is that RSS/Atom feeds often don't tell the whole story. We should be able to scrape any webpage for content regardless of what the author wants to make easily available.

Output is a list of dictionaries, but serializations (JSON, XML, RDF) will be supported. Additional options to be developed include advertisement/javascript removal, link/image/media isolation, etc.

Ultimately, this was written as a support package for Sylph, which aims to completely decentralize the web and take bootstrapped content with it. (Please read more about that and consider contributing.)

The following libraries are used:

  • BeautifulSoup
  • html5lib (for beautiful soup parser fixes)
  • simplejson

(A complete client would have no non-standard library dependencies.)

Sites/Blogs

Software

None yet

(Also, heuristic scraping hasn't even been started yet.)

Output format:

Output is a list of dictionaries, with the following keys:

  • uri
  • title
  • date, a python datetime object, but may not include a time component if the website didn't list the time
  • author, name of the author
  • contents and/or summary, which probably contain minor HTML such as <p> and <img>
  • contents_format and/or summary_format, which are either 'text/plain' or 'text/html'
  • contents_markdown and/or summary_markdown, which contains markdown-formatted version of the respective text

More will be added as I write code to support comments, etc. Also to be output is the type of page, the heuristics used, etc.

License

My code is licensed under the MIT and BSD licenses, however I have included Aaron Swartz' GPL-licensed html2text, which generates structured Markdown from HTML. Thus, to redistribute the code as-is, it must be under the GPL. (Removal of this feature should be very simple and straightforward, however.)

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Strip utm_, fbclid, gclid, etc. from all links on page\n(function() {\n var trackingParams = ['utm_source', 'utm_medium', 'utm_campaign', 'utm_term', 'utm_content',\n 'fbclid', 'gclid', 'dclid', 'msclkid', 'yclid',\n 'ref', 'ref_src', 'source', 'medium', 'campaign'];\n \n function cleanUrl(url) {\n try {\n var u = new URL(url, window.location.origin);\n var changed = false;\n trackingParams.forEach(function(p) {\n if (u.searchParams.has(p)) {\n u.searchParams.delete(p);\n changed = true;\n }\n });\n return changed ? u.toString() : url;\n } catch (e) {\n return url;\n }\n }\n \n function cleanLinks() {\n document.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n \n cleanLinks();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1) {\n if (node.tagName === 'A') cleanLinks();\n node.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Remove Tracking Parameters from Links"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Remove Tracking Parameters from Links]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "youtube.com"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + "youtube\\.com" + '
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web2feed: turn webpages into feeds

This is a script to turn any webpage into a feed. The program relies first on site-specific rules (for popular sites and detectable software packages), then on heuristics (TODO).

The premise is that RSS/Atom feeds often don't tell the whole story. We should be able to scrape any webpage for content regardless of what the author wants to make easily available.

Output is a list of dictionaries, but serializations (JSON, XML, RDF) will be supported. Additional options to be developed include advertisement/javascript removal, link/image/media isolation, etc.

Ultimately, this was written as a support package for Sylph, which aims to completely decentralize the web and take bootstrapped content with it. (Please read more about that and consider contributing.)

The following libraries are used:

  • BeautifulSoup
  • html5lib (for beautiful soup parser fixes)
  • simplejson

(A complete client would have no non-standard library dependencies.)

Sites/Blogs

Software

None yet

(Also, heuristic scraping hasn't even been started yet.)

Output format:

Output is a list of dictionaries, with the following keys:

  • uri
  • title
  • date, a python datetime object, but may not include a time component if the website didn't list the time
  • author, name of the author
  • contents and/or summary, which probably contain minor HTML such as <p> and <img>
  • contents_format and/or summary_format, which are either 'text/plain' or 'text/html'
  • contents_markdown and/or summary_markdown, which contains markdown-formatted version of the respective text

More will be added as I write code to support comments, etc. Also to be output is the type of page, the heuristics used, etc.

License

My code is licensed under the MIT and BSD licenses, however I have included Aaron Swartz' GPL-licensed html2text, which generates structured Markdown from HTML. Thus, to redistribute the code as-is, it must be under the GPL. (Removal of this feature should be very simple and straightforward, however.)

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Auto-enable theater mode on YouTube\n(function() {\n function tryTheater() {\n var btn = document.querySelector('button[aria-label=\"Theater mode\"], ytd-player #player button[title=\"Theater mode\"]');\n if (btn && !btn.classList.contains('activated')) {\n btn.click();\n }\n }\n \n // Try immediately\n tryTheater();\n \n // Try after navigation (SPA)\n var lastUrl = location.href;\n setInterval(function() {\n if (location.href !== lastUrl) {\n lastUrl = location.href;\n setTimeout(tryTheater, 500);\n }\n }, 1000);\n \n // Also try on player load\n var observer = new MutationObserver(tryTheater);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "YouTube Theater Mode Default"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:YouTube Theater Mode Default]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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web2feed: turn webpages into feeds

This is a script to turn any webpage into a feed. The program relies first on site-specific rules (for popular sites and detectable software packages), then on heuristics (TODO).

The premise is that RSS/Atom feeds often don't tell the whole story. We should be able to scrape any webpage for content regardless of what the author wants to make easily available.

Output is a list of dictionaries, but serializations (JSON, XML, RDF) will be supported. Additional options to be developed include advertisement/javascript removal, link/image/media isolation, etc.

Ultimately, this was written as a support package for Sylph, which aims to completely decentralize the web and take bootstrapped content with it. (Please read more about that and consider contributing.)

The following libraries are used:

  • BeautifulSoup
  • html5lib (for beautiful soup parser fixes)
  • simplejson

(A complete client would have no non-standard library dependencies.)

Sites/Blogs

Software

None yet

(Also, heuristic scraping hasn't even been started yet.)

Output format:

Output is a list of dictionaries, with the following keys:

  • uri
  • title
  • date, a python datetime object, but may not include a time component if the website didn't list the time
  • author, name of the author
  • contents and/or summary, which probably contain minor HTML such as <p> and <img>
  • contents_format and/or summary_format, which are either 'text/plain' or 'text/html'
  • contents_markdown and/or summary_markdown, which contains markdown-formatted version of the respective text

More will be added as I write code to support comments, etc. Also to be output is the type of page, the heuristics used, etc.

License

My code is licensed under the MIT and BSD licenses, however I have included Aaron Swartz' GPL-licensed html2text, which generates structured Markdown from HTML. Thus, to redistribute the code as-is, it must be under the GPL. (Removal of this feature should be very simple and straightforward, however.)

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Remove or un-stick sticky/fixed headers that block content\n(function() {\n function unstick() {\n document.querySelectorAll('header, nav, [role=\"banner\"], .header, .navbar, .sticky, .fixed-top, [style*=\"position: fixed\"], [style*=\"position:sticky\"]').forEach(function(el) {\n if (el.style.position === 'fixed' || el.style.position === 'sticky' || \n getComputedStyle(el).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(el).position === 'sticky') {\n el.style.position = 'static';\n el.style.top = 'auto';\n el.style.zIndex = 'auto';\n }\n });\n }\n \n unstick();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(unstick);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true, attributes: true, attributeFilter: ['style', 'class'] });\n})();", "Kill Sticky Headers"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Kill Sticky Headers]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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web2feed: turn webpages into feeds

This is a script to turn any webpage into a feed. The program relies first on site-specific rules (for popular sites and detectable software packages), then on heuristics (TODO).

The premise is that RSS/Atom feeds often don't tell the whole story. We should be able to scrape any webpage for content regardless of what the author wants to make easily available.

Output is a list of dictionaries, but serializations (JSON, XML, RDF) will be supported. Additional options to be developed include advertisement/javascript removal, link/image/media isolation, etc.

Ultimately, this was written as a support package for Sylph, which aims to completely decentralize the web and take bootstrapped content with it. (Please read more about that and consider contributing.)

The following libraries are used:

  • BeautifulSoup
  • html5lib (for beautiful soup parser fixes)
  • simplejson

(A complete client would have no non-standard library dependencies.)

Sites/Blogs

Software

None yet

(Also, heuristic scraping hasn't even been started yet.)

Output format:

Output is a list of dictionaries, with the following keys:

  • uri
  • title
  • date, a python datetime object, but may not include a time component if the website didn't list the time
  • author, name of the author
  • contents and/or summary, which probably contain minor HTML such as <p> and <img>
  • contents_format and/or summary_format, which are either 'text/plain' or 'text/html'
  • contents_markdown and/or summary_markdown, which contains markdown-formatted version of the respective text

More will be added as I write code to support comments, etc. Also to be output is the type of page, the heuristics used, etc.

License

My code is licensed under the MIT and BSD licenses, however I have included Aaron Swartz' GPL-licensed html2text, which generates structured Markdown from HTML. Thus, to redistribute the code as-is, it must be under the GPL. (Removal of this feature should be very simple and straightforward, however.)

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Universal Dark Mode - works on any site\n(function() {\n var enabled = true;\n \n function applyDarkMode() {\n if (!enabled) return;\n \n // Create style element if it doesn't exist\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (!style) {\n style = document.createElement('style');\n style.id = 'universal-dark-mode-style';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n }\n \n // Dark mode CSS - inverts colors but preserves images/video\n style.textContent = '\n /* Invert everything except media */\n html {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #1a1a2e !important;\n }\n \n /* Restore images, videos, iframes, canvas */\n img, video, iframe, canvas, svg, picture, [style*=\"background-image\"] {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n }\n \n /* Preserve specific elements that should not be inverted */\n .no-dark-mode, .no-dark-mode *,\n [data-theme=\"light\"], [data-theme=\"light\"],\n .ace_editor, .ace_editor *,\n .CodeMirror, .CodeMirror *,\n .monaco-editor, .monaco-editor *,\n .markdown-body pre, .markdown-body pre *,\n .highlight, .highlight *,\n pre code, pre code * {\n filter: none !important;\n }\n \n /* Fix common UI elements */\n .modal, .popup, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip, .popover {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #2d2d44 !important;\n border-color: #444 !important;\n }\n \n /* Scrollbars */\n ::-webkit-scrollbar { background: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: #444 !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover { background: #555 !important; }\n \n /* Selection */\n ::selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-moz-selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ';\n }\n \n function removeDarkMode() {\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (style) style.remove();\n }\n \n // Toggle with Alt+Shift+D\n document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {\n if (e.altKey && e.shiftKey && e.key === 'D') {\n e.preventDefault();\n enabled = !enabled;\n if (enabled) {\n applyDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Enabled');\n } else {\n removeDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Disabled');\n }\n }\n });\n \n // Apply on load\n applyDarkMode();\n \n // Re-apply on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n if (enabled && !document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style')) {\n applyDarkMode();\n }\n });\n observer.observe(document.head, { childList: true });\n \n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Loaded - Press Alt+Shift+D to toggle');\n})();", "Universal Dark Mode"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Universal Dark Mode]', __e); } })(); })();
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web2feed: turn webpages into feeds

This is a script to turn any webpage into a feed. The program relies first on site-specific rules (for popular sites and detectable software packages), then on heuristics (TODO).

The premise is that RSS/Atom feeds often don't tell the whole story. We should be able to scrape any webpage for content regardless of what the author wants to make easily available.

Output is a list of dictionaries, but serializations (JSON, XML, RDF) will be supported. Additional options to be developed include advertisement/javascript removal, link/image/media isolation, etc.

Ultimately, this was written as a support package for Sylph, which aims to completely decentralize the web and take bootstrapped content with it. (Please read more about that and consider contributing.)

The following libraries are used:

  • BeautifulSoup
  • html5lib (for beautiful soup parser fixes)
  • simplejson

(A complete client would have no non-standard library dependencies.)

Sites/Blogs

Software

None yet

(Also, heuristic scraping hasn't even been started yet.)

Output format:

Output is a list of dictionaries, with the following keys:

  • uri
  • title
  • date, a python datetime object, but may not include a time component if the website didn't list the time
  • author, name of the author
  • contents and/or summary, which probably contain minor HTML such as <p> and <img>
  • contents_format and/or summary_format, which are either 'text/plain' or 'text/html'
  • contents_markdown and/or summary_markdown, which contains markdown-formatted version of the respective text

More will be added as I write code to support comments, etc. Also to be output is the type of page, the heuristics used, etc.

License

My code is licensed under the MIT and BSD licenses, however I have included Aaron Swartz' GPL-licensed html2text, which generates structured Markdown from HTML. Thus, to redistribute the code as-is, it must be under the GPL. (Removal of this feature should be very simple and straightforward, however.)

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