Newspaper4k: Article Scraping & Curation, a continuation of the beloved newspaper3k by codelucas

At the moment the Newspaper4k Project is a fork of the well known newspaper3k by codelucas which was not updated since Sept 2020. The initial goal of this fork is to keep the project alive and to add new features and fix bugs.

I have duplicated all issues on the original project and will try to fix them. If you have any issues or feature requests please open an issue here.

Python compatibility

- Recommended: Python 3.8+
- Python 3.6+ minimum
- Fixes for Python < 3.8 are low priority and might not be merged

Quick start

pip install newspaper4k

You can start directly from the command line, using the included CLI:

python -m newspaper --url="https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/17/success/job-seekers-use-ai/index.html" --language=en --output-format=json --output-file=article.json

Or use the Python API:

import newspaper

article = newspaper.article('https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/29/sport/nfl-week-8-how-to-watch-spt-intl/index.html')

print(article.authors)
# ['Hannah Brewitt', 'Minute Read', 'Published', 'Am Edt', 'Sun October']

print(article.publish_date)
# 2023-10-29 09:00:15.717000+00:00

print(article.text)
# New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, right, embraces Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott ...

print(article.top_image)
#https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/231015223702-06-nfl-season-gallery-1015.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill

print(article.movies)
# []

article.nlp()
print(article.keywords)
# ['broncos', 'game', 'et', 'wide', 'chiefs', 'mahomes', 'patrick', 'denver', 'nfl', 'stadium', 'week', 'quarterback', 'win', 'history', 'images']

print(article.summary)
# Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Denver Broncos running back Javonte Williams evades Green Bay Packers safety Darnell Savage, bottom.
# Kathryn Riley/Getty Images Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes calls a play during the Chiefs' 19-8 Thursday Night Football win over the Denver Broncos on October 12.
# Paul Sancya/AP New York Jets running back Breece Hall carries the ball during a game against the Denver Broncos.
# The Broncos have not beaten the Chiefs since 2015, and have never beaten Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
# Australia: NFL+, ESPN, 7Plus Brazil: NFL+, ESPN Canada: NFL+, CTV, TSN, RDS Germany: NFL+, ProSieben MAXX, DAZN Mexico: NFL+, TUDN, ESPN, Fox Sports, Sky Sports UK: NFL+, Sky Sports, ITV, Channel 5 US: NFL+, CBS, NBC, FOX, ESPN, Amazon Prime

Using the builder API

This way you can build a Source object from a newspaper websites. This object will allow you to get all the articles and categories on the website. When you build the source, articles are not yet downloaded. You need to call download_articles() to download the articles, but note that it can take a significant time.

``` python
import newspaper

cnn_paper = newspaper.build('http://cnn.com')
print(cnn_paper.category_urls())
# ['https://cnn.com', 'https://money.cnn.com', 'https://arabic.cnn.com', 'https://cnnespanol.cnn.com', 'http://edition.cnn.com', 'https://edition.cnn.com', 'https://us.cnn.com', 'https://www.cnn.com']

article_urls = [article.url for article in cnn_paper.articles]
print(article_urls[:3])
# ['https://arabic.cnn.com/middle-east/article/2023/10/30/number-of-hostages-held-in-gaza-now-up-to-239-idf-spokesperson', 'https://arabic.cnn.com/middle-east/video/2023/10/30/v146619-sotu-sullivan-hostage-negotiations', 'https://arabic.cnn.com/middle-east/article/2023/10/29/norwegian-pm-israel-gaza']

article = cnn_paper.articles[0]
article.download()
article.parse()

print(article.title)
# المتحدث باسم الجيش الإسرائيلي: عدد الرهائن المحتجزين في غزة يصل إلى

``` pycon
from newspaper import fulltext

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

Languages

Newspaper can extract and detect languages seamlessly. If no language is specified, Newspaper will attempt to auto detect a language from the available meta data. The fallback language is English.

``` pycon
from newspaper import Article

article = Article('https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/chinese-news-67084358')
article.download()
article.parse()

print(article.title)
# 晶片大战：台湾厂商助攻华为突破美国封锁？

Docs

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

Contributing

Adding languages

Interested in adding a new language for us? Refer to: Docs - Adding new languages

At the moment we are not integrating new languages, the language api will change. You can still submit a PR with the language you want to add and we will merge it once the language api is stable.

Submitting a PR

Interested in submitting a PR? Refer to: Docs - Submitting a PR

Submitting an issue

Before submitting an issue, please check if it has already been reported. Additionally, please check that:

• The article website you have troubles with is not paywalled Docs - Paywall
• The article website is not generating the webpage dynamically (e.g. using JavaScript) Docs - Dynamic content
• The article website is not using a language that is not supported by newspaper4k Docs - Supported languages

Also, in any case, please provide the following information:

• The URL of the article you are trying to parse
• The code you are using to parse the article
• The error you are getting (if any)
• The parsing result you are getting (if any)

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, ...)

Requirements and dependencies

Following system packages are required:

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

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

• Install python3 and python3-dev:

  $ sudo apt-get install python3 python3-dev
  

• Install pip3 command needed to install newspaper4k package:

  $ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
  

• 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.

• Install the distribution via pip:

  $ pip3 install newspaper4k
  

• Download NLP (nltk) related corpora:

  $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AndyTheFactory/newspaper4k/master/download_corpora.py | python3
  

• Download NLP (nltk) related corpora:

  $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AndyTheFactory/newspaper4k/master/download_corpora.py | python3
  

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 newspaper4k

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AndyTheFactory/newspaper4k/master/download_corpora.py | python3

LICENSE

Authored and maintained by Andrei Paraschiv.

Newspaper was originally developed by Lucas Ou-Yang (codelucas), the original repository can be found here. Newspaper is licensed under the MIT license.

Credits

Thanks to Lucas Ou-Yang for creating the original Newspaper3k project and to all contributors of the original project.