datefinder 0.6.0

datefinder - extract dates from text
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A module for locating dates inside text. Use this package to extract all sorts
of date like strings from a document and turn them into datetime objects.

This module finds the likely datetime strings and then uses the
`dateparser <https://github.com/scrapinghub/dateparser>`_ package to convert
to the datetime object.


Installation
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.. code-block::

pip install datefinder


How to Use
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.. automodule:: datefinder
:members: find_dates


.. code-block:: python

>>> import datefinder
>>> matches = datefinder.find_dates(string_with_dates)

>>> for match in matches:
print match

2016-01-13 11:00:00
2016-01-05 00:00:00
2014-01-02 00:00:00
2014-01-02 00:00:00