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Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML

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Collect and organize text and data from the web into structured formats like CSV or JSON.

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Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML

trafilatura has 6.7k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 425 times. trafilatura is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2019. trafilatura is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are article-extractor, corpus-builder, corpus-tools, crawler.

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Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML

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trafilatura is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

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Yes. trafilatura is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does trafilatura use?

trafilatura is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

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trafilatura is written mainly in Python.

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