trafilatura - trafilatura-2.0.0

Breaking changes: - Python 3.6 and 3.7 deprecated (#709) - bare_extraction(): - now returns an instance of the Document class by default - as_dict deprecation warning → use .as_dict() method on return value (#730) - bare_extraction() and extract(): no_fallback deprecation warning → use fast instead (#730) - downloads: remove decode argument in fetch_url() → use fetch_response instead (#724) - deprecated graphical user interface now removed (#713) - extraction: move max_tree_size parameter to settings.cfg (#742) - use type hinting (#721, #723, #748) - see Python and CLI deprecations in the docs

Fixes: - set options.source before raising error on empty doc tree by @dmoklaf (#707) - robust encoding in options.source (#717) - more robust mapping for conversion to HTML (#721) - CLI downloads: use all information in settings file (#734) - downloads: cleaner urllib3 code (#736) - refine table markdown output by @unsleepy22 (#752) - extraction fix: images in text nodes by @unsleepy22 (#757)

Metadata: - more robust URL extraction (#710)

Command-line interface: - CLI: print URLs early for feeds and sitemaps with --list with @gremid (#744) - CLI: add 126 exit code for high error ratio (#747)

Maintenance: - remove already deprecated functions and args (#716) - add type hints (#723, #728) - setup: use pyproject.toml file (#715) - simplify code (#708, #709, #727) - better debug messages in main_extractor (#714) - evaluation: review data, update packages, add magichtml (#731) - setup: explicit exports through `all_` (#740) - tests: extend coverage (#753)

Documentation: - fix link in docs/index.html by @nzw0301 (#711) - remove docs from published packages (#743) - update docs (#745)

- Python
Published by adbar about 1 year ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.12.2

• downloads: add support for SOCKS proxies with @gremid (#682)
• extraction fix: ValueError in table spans (#685)
• spider: prune_xpath parameter added by @felipehertzer (#684)
• spider: relax strict parameter for link extraction (#687)
• sitemaps: max_sitemaps parameter added by @felipehertzer (#690)
• maintenance: make compression libraries optional (#691)
• metadata: review and lint code (#694)

- Python
Published by adbar over 1 year ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.12.1

Navigation: - spider: restrict search to sections containing URL path (#673) - crawler: add parameter class and types, breaking change for undocumented functions (#675) - maintenance: simplify link discovery and extend tests (#674) - CLI: review code, add types and tests (#677)

Bugfixes: - fix AttributeError in element deletion (#668) - fix MemoryError in table header columns (#665)

Docs: - docs: fix variable name for extract_metadata in quickstart by @jpigla in #678

- Python
Published by adbar over 1 year ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.12.0

Breaking change: - enforce fixed list of output formats, deprecate -out on the CLI (#647)

Faster, more accurate extraction: - review link and structure checks (#653) - improve justext fallback (#652) - baseline: prevent LXML error in JSON-LD (#643), do not use as backup extraction (#646) - review XPaths for undesirable content (#645)

Bugfixes and maintenance: - CLI fix: markdown format should trigger include_formatting (#649) - images fix: use a length threshold on src attribute (#654) - XML-TEI: replace RelaxNG by DTD, remove pickle, and update (#655) - formatting & markdown fix: add newlines (#656) - table fix: prevent MemoryError & ValueError during conversion to text (#658)

Documentation: - update crawls.rst: known is an unexpected argument, by @tommytyc in #638

- Python
Published by adbar over 1 year ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.11.0

Breaking change: - metadata now skipped by default (#613), to trigger inclusion in all output formats: - with_metadata=True (Python) - --with-metadata (CLI)

Extraction: - add HTML as output format (#614) - better and faster baseline extraction (#619) - better handling of HTML/XML elements (#628) - XPath rules added with @felipehertzer (#540) - fix: avoid faulty readability_lxml content (#635)

Evaluation: - new scripts and data with @LydiaKoerber (#606, #615) - additional data with @swetepete (#197)

Maintenance: - docs extended and updated, added page on deduplication (#618) - review code, add tests and types in part of the submodules (#620, #623, #624, #625)

- Python
Published by adbar over 1 year ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.10.0

Breaking changes: - raise errors on deprecated CLI and function arguments (#581) - regroup classes and functions linked to deduplication (#582) trafilatura.hashing → trafilatura.deduplication

Extraction: - port of isprobablyreaderable from readability.js by @zirkelc in #587 - Markdown table fixes by @naktinis in #601 - fix list spacing in TXT output (#598) - CLI fixes: file processing options, mtime, and tests (#605) - CLI fix: read standard input as binary (#607)

Downloads: - fix deflate and add optional zstd to accepted encodings (#594) - spider fix: use internal download utilities for robots.txt (#590)

Maintenance: - add author XPaths (#567) - update justext and lxml dependencies (#593) - simplify code: unique function for length tests (#591)

Docs: - fix typos by @RainRat in #603

- Python
Published by adbar almost 2 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.9.0

Extraction: - add markdown as explicit output (#550) - improve recall preset (#571) - speedup for readability-lxml (#547) - add global options object for extraction and use it in CLI (#552) - fix: better encoding detection (#548) - recall: fix for lists inside tables with @mikhainin (#534) - add symbol to preserve vertical spacing in Markdown (#499) - fix: table cell separators in non-XML output (#563) - slightly better accuracy and execution speed overall

Metadata: - add file creation date (date extraction, JSON & XML-TEI) (#561) - fix: empty content in meta tag by @felipehertzer (#545)

Maintenance: - restructure and simplify code (#543, #556) - CLI & downloads: revamp and use global options (#565) - eval: review code, add guidelines and small benchmark (#542) - fix: raise error if config file does not exist (#554) - deprecate process_record() (#549) - docs: convert readme to markdown and update info (#564, #578)

- Python
Published by adbar almost 2 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.8.1

Maintenance: - Pin LXML to prevent broken dependency (#535)

Extraction: - Improve extraction accuracy for major news outlets (#530) - Fix formatting by correcting order of element generation and space handling with @dlwh (#528) - Fix: prevent tail insertion before children in nested elements by @knit-bee (#536)

- Python
Published by adbar almost 2 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.8.0

Extraction: - Better precision by @felipehertzer (#509, #520) - Code formatting in TXT/Markdown output added (#498) - Improved CSV output (#496) - LXML: compile XPath expressions (#504) - Overall speedup about +5%

Downloads and Navigation: - More robust scans with is_live_page() (#501) - Better sitemap start and safeguards (#503, #506) - Fix for headers in response object (#513)

Maintenance: - License changed to Apache 2.0 - Response class: convenience functions added (#497) - lxml.html.Cleaner removed (#491) - CLI fixes: parallel cores and processing (#524)

- Python
Published by adbar almost 2 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.7.0

Extraction: - improved html2txt() function (#483)

Downloads: - add advanced fetch_response() function → pending deprecation for fetch_url(decode=False)

Maintenance: - support for LXML v5+ (#484 by @knit-bee, #485) - update htmldate

- Python
Published by adbar about 2 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.6.4

Maintenance: - MacOS: fix setup, update htmldate and add tests (#460) - drop invalid XML element attributes with @vbarbaresi in #462 - remove cyclic imports (#458)

Navigation: - introduce MAX_REDIRECTS config setting and fix urllib3 redirect handling by @vbarbaresi in #461 - improve feed detection (#457)

Documentation: - enhancements to documentation and testing with @Maddesea in #456

- Python
Published by adbar about 2 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.6.3

Extraction: - preserve space in certain elements with @idoshamun (#429) - optional list of xPaths to prune by @HeLehm (#414)

Metadata: - more precise date extraction (see htmldate) - new htmldate extensive search parameter in config (#434) - changes in URLs: normalization, trackers removed (see courlan)

Navigation: - reviewed code for feeds (#443) - new config option: external URLs for feeds/sitemaps (#441)

Documentation: - update, add page on text embeddings with @tonyyanga (#428, #435, #447) - fix quickstart by @sashkab (#419)

- Python
Published by adbar over 2 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.6.2

Extraction: - more lenient HTML parsing (#370) - improved code block support with @idoshamun (#372, #401) - convertion of relative links to absolute by @feltcat (#377) - remove use of signal from core functions (#384)

Metadata: - JSON-LD fix for sitenames by @felipehertzer (#383)

Command-line interface: - more robust batch processing (#381) - added --probe option to CLI to check for extractable content (#378, #392)

Maintenance: - simplified code (#408) - support for Python 3.12 - pinned LXML version for MacOS (#393) - updated dependencies and parameters (notably htmldate and courlan) - code cleaning by @marksmayo (#406)

- Python
Published by adbar over 2 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.6.1

Extraction: - minor fixes: tables in figures (#301), headings (#354) and lists (#318)

Metadata: - simplify and fully test JSON parsing code, with @felipehertzer (#352, #368) - authors, JSON and unicode fixes by @felipehertzer in #365 - fix for authors without additionalName by @awwitecki in #363

Navigation: - reviewed link processing in feeds and sitemaps (#340, #350) - more robust spider (#359) - updated underlying courlan package (#360)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.6.0...v1.6.1

- Python
Published by adbar over 2 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.6.0

Extraction: - new content hashes and default file names (#314) - fix deprecation warning with @sdondley in #321 - fix for metadata image by @andremacola in #328 - fix potential unicode issue in third-party extraction with @Korben00 in #331 - review logging levels (#347)

Command-line interface: - more efficient sitemap processing (#326) - more efficient downloads (#338) - fix for single URL processing (#324) and URL blacklisting (#339)

Navigation - additional safety check on domain similarity for feeds and sitemaps - new function is_live test() using HTTP HEAD request (#327) - code parts supported by new courlan version

Maintenance - allow urllib3 version 2.0+ - minor code simplification and fixes

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.5.0...v1.6.0

- Python
Published by adbar almost 3 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.5.0

Extraction: - fixes for metadata extraction with @felipehertzer (#295, #296), @andremacola (#282, #310), and @edkrueger (#303) - pagetype and image urls added to metadata by @andremacola (#282, #310) - add as_dict method to Document class with @edkrueger in #306 - XML output fix with @knit-bee in #315 - various smaller fixes: lists (#309), XPaths, metadata hardening

Navigation: - transfer URL management to courlan.UrlStore (#232, #312) - fixes for spider module

Maintenance: - simplify code and extend tests - underlying packages htmldate and courlan, update setup and docs

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.4.1...v1.5.0

- Python
Published by adbar almost 3 years ago

trafilatura - v1.4.1

Extraction: - extraction bugs fixed (#263, #266), more robust HTML doctype parsing - XML output improvements by @knit-bee (#273, #274) - adjust thresholds for link density in paragraphs

Metadata: - improved title and sitename detection (#284) - faster author, categories, domain name, and tags extraction - fixes to author emoji regexes by @felipehertzer (#269)

Command-line interface: - review argument consistency and add deprecation warnings (#261)

Setup: - make download timeout configurable (#263) - updated dependencies, use of faust-cchardet for Python 3.11

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.4.0...v1.4.1

- Python
Published by adbar about 3 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.4.0

Impact on extraction and output format: - better extraction (#233, #243 & #250 with @knit-bee, #246 with @mrienstra, #258) - XML: preserve list type as attribute (#229) - XML TEI: better conformity with @knit-bee (#238, #242, #253, #254) - faster text cleaning and shorter code (#237 with @deedy5, #245) - metadata: add language when detector is activated (#224) - metadata: extend fallbacks and test coverage for json_metadata functions by @felipehertzer (#235) - TXT: change markdown formatting of headers by @LaundroMat (#257)

Smaller changes in convenience functions: - add function to clear caches (#219) - CLI: change exit code if download fails (#223) - settings: use "\n" for multiple user agents by @k-sareen (#241)

Updates: - docs updated (and #244 by @dsgibbons) - package dependencies updated

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.3.0...v1.4.0

- Python
Published by adbar over 3 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.3.0

• fast and robust html2txt() function added (#221)
• more robust parsing (#228)
• fixed bugs in metadata extraction, with @felipehertzer in #213 & #226
• extraction about 10-20% faster, slightly better recall
• partial fixes for memory leaks (#216)
• docs extended and updated (#217, #225)
• prepared deprecation of old process_record() function
• more stable processing with updated dependencies

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.2.2...v1.3.0

- Python
Published by adbar over 3 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.2.2

• more efficient rules for extraction
• metadata: further attributes used (with @felipehertzer)
• better baseline extraction
• issues fixed: #202, #204, #205
• evaluation updated

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.2.1...v1.2.2

- Python
Published by adbar almost 4 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.2.1

What's Changed

• --precision and --recall arguments added to the CLI
• better text cleaning: paywalls and comments
• improvements for Chinese websites (with @glacierck & @immortal-autumn): #186, #187, #188
• further bugs fixed: #189, #192 (with @felipehertzer), #200
• efficiency: faster module loading and improved RAM footprint

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.1

- Python
Published by adbar almost 4 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.2.0

• efficiency: replaced module readability-lxml by trimmed fork
• bugs fixed: (#179, #180, #183, #184)
• improved baseline extraction
• cleaner metadata (with @felipehertzer)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0

- Python
Published by adbar almost 4 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-1.1.0

• encodings: better detection, output NFC-normalized Unicode
• maintenance and performance: more efficient code
• bugs fixed (#119, #136, #147, #160, #161, #162, #164, #167 and others)
• prepare compatibility with upcoming Python 3.11
• changed default settings
• extended documentation

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0

- Python
Published by adbar about 4 years ago

trafilatura - v1.0.0

• compress HTML backup files & seamlessly open .gz files
• support JSON web feeds
• graphical user interface integrated into main package
• faster downloads: reviewed backoff, compressed data
• optional modules: downloads with pycurl, language identification with py3langid
• bugs fixed (#111, #125, #132, #136, #140)
• minor optimizations and fixes by @vbarbaresi in #124 & #130
• fixed array with single or multiples entries on json extractor by @felipehertzer in #143
• code base refactored with @sourcery-ai #121, improved and optimized for Python 3.6+
• drop support for Python 3.5

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v0.9.3...v1.0.0

- Python
Published by adbar about 4 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.9.3

• better, faster encoding detection: replaced chardet with charset_normalizer
• faster execution: updated justext to 3.0
• better extraction of sub-elements in tables (#78, #90)
• more robust web feed parsing
• further defined precision- and recall-oriented settings
• license extraction in footers (#118)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/compare/v0.9.2...v0.9.3

- Python
Published by adbar over 4 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.9.2

• first precision- and recall-oriented presets defined
• improvements in authorship extraction (thanks @felipehertzer)
• requesting TXT output with formatting now results in Markdown format
• bugs fixed: notably extraction robustness and consistency (#109, #111, #113)
• setting for cookies in request headers (thanks @muellermartin)
• better date extraction thanks to htmldate update

- Python
Published by adbar over 4 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.9.1

• improved author extraction (thanks @felipehertzer!)
• bugs fixed: HTML element handling, HTML meta attributes, spider, CLI, ...
• docs updated and extended
• CLI: option names normalized (heed deprecation warnings), new option explore

- Python
Published by adbar over 4 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.9.0

• focused crawling functions including politeness rules
• more efficient multi-threaded downloads + use as Python functions
• documentation extended
• bugs fixed: extraction and URL handling
• removed support for Python 3.4

- Python
Published by adbar over 4 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.8.2

• better handling of formatting, links and images, title type as attribute in XML formats
• more robust sitemaps and feeds processing
• more accurate extraction
• further consolidation: code simplified and bugs fixed

- Python
Published by adbar almost 5 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.8.1

• extraction trade-off: slightly better recall
• code robustness: requests, configuration and navigation
• bugfixes: image data extraction

- Python
Published by adbar almost 5 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.8.0

• improved link discovery and handling
• fixes in metadata extraction, feeds and sitemaps processing
• breaking change: the extract function now reads target format from output_format argument only
• new extraction option: preserve links, CLI options re-ordered
• more opportunistic backup extraction

- Python
Published by adbar about 5 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.7.0

• customizable configuration file to parametrize extraction and downloads
• better handling of feeds and sitemaps
• additional CLI options: crytographic hash for file name, use Internet Archive as backup
• more precise extraction
• faster downloads: requests replaced with bare urllib3 and custom decoding
• consolidation: bug fixes and improvements, many thanks to the issues reporters!

- Python
Published by adbar about 5 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.6.1

• added bare_extraction function returning Python variables
• improved link discovery in feeds and sitemaps
• option to preserve image info
• fixes (many thanks to bug reporters!)

- Python
Published by adbar about 5 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.6.0

• link discovery in sitemaps
• compatibility with Python 3.9
• extraction coverage improved
• deduplication now optional
• bug fixes

- Python
Published by adbar over 5 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.5.2

• optional language detector changed: langid → pycld3
• helper function bare_extraction()
• optional deduplication off by default
• better URL handling (courlan), more complete metadata
• code consolidation (cleaner and shorter)

- Python
Published by adbar over 5 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.5.1

• extended and more convenient command-line options
• output in JSON format
• bug fixes

- Python
Published by adbar over 5 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.5.0

• faster and more robust text and metadata extraction
• more efficient batch processing (parallel processing, URL queues)
• support for ATOM/RSS feeds
• complete command-line tool with corresponding options

- Python
Published by adbar over 5 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.4.1

• better metadata extraction and integration (XML & XML-TEI)
• more efficient processing
• output directory as CLI-option

- Python
Published by adbar almost 6 years ago

trafilatura - trafilatura-0.1.0

First release used in production and meant to be archived on Zenodo for reproducibility and citability.

- Python
Published by adbar over 6 years ago