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I know there is lxml and BeautifulSoup, but that won’t work for my project, because I don’t know in advance what the HTML format of the site I am trying to scrape an article off of will be. Is there a python-type module similar to Readability that does a pretty good job at finding the content of an article and returning it?
It’s possible to do using PhantomJS (C++) or PyPhantomJS (Python).
They’re both headless WebKit based browsers, which you can fully control from JavaScript. Because you can control it from JavaScript, I find it is really easy to do stuff such as scrape the content of an article.
PyPhantomJS also has a plugin system, so that’s definitely a plus. 🙂