Web Content Retrieval for Humans™

Overview

Lassie

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Lassie is a Python library for retrieving basic content from websites.

https://i.imgur.com/QrvNfAX.gif

Usage

>>> import lassie
>>> lassie.fetch('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ')
{
    'description': u'Music video by Rick Astley performing Never Gonna Give You Up. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 2,573,462 (C) 1987 PWL',
    'videos': [{
        'src': u'http://www.youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ?autohide=1&version=3',
        'height': 480,
        'type': u'application/x-shockwave-flash',
        'width': 640
    }, {
        'src': u'https://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ',
        'height': 480,
        'width': 640
    }],
    'title': u'Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up',
    'url': u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ',
    'keywords': [u'Rick', u'Astley', u'Sony', u'BMG', u'Music', u'UK', u'Pop'],
    'images': [{
        'src': u'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg?feature=og',
        'type': u'og:image'
    }, {
        'src': u'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg',
        'type': u'twitter:image'
    }, {
        'src': u'http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon-vfldLzJxy.ico',
        'type': u'favicon'
    }, {
        'src': u'http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon_32-vflWoMFGx.png',
        'type': u'favicon'
    }],
    'locale': u'en_US'
}

Install

Install Lassie via pip

$ pip install lassie

or, with easy_install

$ easy_install lassie

But, hey... that's up to you.

Documentation

Documentation can be found here: https://lassie.readthedocs.org/

Comments
  • Fix possible ValueError in convert_to_int caused by values like 1px

    Fix possible ValueError in convert_to_int caused by values like 1px

    When trying to parse http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/rim-fire-map-color-scale/ a ValueError was raised in convert_to_img, because the page has image width and height values ending in px.

    I changed the function to be more liberal regarding dimension values, by extracting the digits before casting to int. I added a test for this.

    Not sure though if the value should be converted to int at all or kept as a string.

    opened by yaph 14
  • Import fails on Python3.5

    Import fails on Python3.5

    It appears something is seriously broken when trying to install lassie with Python 3.5. Install goes fine but when importing I get here:

    Python 3.5.0 (default, Sep 23 2015, 04:41:38)
    [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import lassie
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/Users/ben/dev/beavy/venv/src/lassie/lassie/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
        from .api import fetch
      File "/Users/ben/dev/beavy/venv/src/lassie/lassie/api.py", line 11, in <module>
        from .core import Lassie
      File "/Users/ben/dev/beavy/venv/src/lassie/lassie/core.py", line 13, in <module>
        from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
      File "/Users/ben/dev/beavy/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bs4/__init__.py", line 30, in <module>
        from .builder import builder_registry, ParserRejectedMarkup
      File "/Users/ben/dev/beavy/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bs4/builder/__init__.py", line 308, in <module>
        from . import _htmlparser
      File "/Users/ben/dev/beavy/venv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/bs4/builder/_htmlparser.py", line 7, in <module>
        from html.parser import (
    ImportError: cannot import name 'HTMLParseError'
    
    opened by gnunicorn 6
  • Add optional structured properties for og:image and og:video

    Add optional structured properties for og:image and og:video

    From http://ogp.me/#structured.

    The og:video tag has the identical tags as og:image.

    og:image:url - Identical to og:image. og:image:secure_url - An alternate url to use if the webpage requires HTTPS. og:image:type - A MIME type for this image. og:image:width - The number of pixels wide. og:image:height - The number of pixels high.

    opened by jpadilla 6
  • Optional support for canonical URL meta tag.

    Optional support for canonical URL meta tag.

    This is very roughed in, but it adds support for returning the URL as provided by the canonical link element.

    There isn't anything to determine precedence with og:url.

    Has passing tests, and is disabled by default.

    Needed this for a project, not sure if it would be useful upstream.

    enhancement 
    opened by jmhobbs 5
  • Possible relative URL in og:image

    Possible relative URL in og:image

    I just came accros a page with a relative path value for the og:image. Adding a call to urljoin on the src attribute in line 186 of core.py would be a possibility, but maybe it's better to check for the src prop (possibly href prop too) in _filter_meta_data and do it there. What do you think about that?

    opened by yaph 5
  • Can't get the full article.

    Can't get the full article.

    Hi, I want to extract the article from the source url. I got only the title of the article and small parts of it under the "description" parameter.

    opened by yaseenox 4
  • Update requests==2.8 in setup.py, too

    Update requests==2.8 in setup.py, too

    The changelog for the last release states, that request is now pinned at version 2.8, yet when installing the latest version of lassie, it requires (and install) version 2.6 – the setup.py hasn't been updated to reflect that change and breaks the installation. This PR corrects that.

    opened by gnunicorn 4
  • Please allow to configure the requests session

    Please allow to configure the requests session

    It would be useful to be able to configure the requests session used to retrieve the requested URL.

    You could perhaps initialize a default session object in the Lassie constructor, which the user could then configure, and/or add a parameter to Lassie.fetch() to override the default session.

    opened by tawmas 4
  • Bump requests from 2.18.4 to 2.20.0

    Bump requests from 2.18.4 to 2.20.0

    ⚠️ Dependabot is rebasing this PR ⚠️

    If you make any changes to it yourself then they will take precedence over the rebase.


    Bumps requests from 2.18.4 to 2.20.0.

    Changelog

    Sourced from requests's changelog.

    2.20.0 (2018-10-18)

    Bugfixes

    • Content-Type header parsing is now case-insensitive (e.g. charset=utf8 v Charset=utf8).
    • Fixed exception leak where certain redirect urls would raise uncaught urllib3 exceptions.
    • Requests removes Authorization header from requests redirected from https to http on the same hostname. (CVE-2018-18074)
    • should_bypass_proxies now handles URIs without hostnames (e.g. files).

    Dependencies

    • Requests now supports urllib3 v1.24.

    Deprecations

    • Requests has officially stopped support for Python 2.6.

    2.19.1 (2018-06-14)

    Bugfixes

    • Fixed issue where status_codes.py's init function failed trying to append to a __doc__ value of None.

    2.19.0 (2018-06-12)

    Improvements

    • Warn user about possible slowdown when using cryptography version < 1.3.4
    • Check for invalid host in proxy URL, before forwarding request to adapter.
    • Fragments are now properly maintained across redirects. (RFC7231 7.1.2)
    • Removed use of cgi module to expedite library load time.
    • Added support for SHA-256 and SHA-512 digest auth algorithms.
    • Minor performance improvement to Request.content.
    • Migrate to using collections.abc for 3.7 compatibility.

    Bugfixes

    • Parsing empty Link headers with parse_header_links() no longer return one bogus entry.
    ... (truncated)
    Commits
    • bd84045 v2.20.0
    • 7fd9267 remove final remnants from 2.6
    • 6ae8a21 Add myself to AUTHORS
    • 89ab030 Use comprehensions whenever possible
    • 2c6a842 Merge pull request #4827 from webmaven/patch-1
    • 30be889 CVE URLs update: www sub-subdomain no longer valid
    • a6cd380 Merge pull request #4765 from requests/encapsulate_urllib3_exc
    • bbdbcc8 wrap url parsing exceptions from urllib3's PoolManager
    • ff0c325 Merge pull request #4805 from jdufresne/https
    • b0ad249 Prefer https:// for URLs throughout project
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    dependencies 
    opened by dependabot[bot] 3
  • Added support for open graph optional property `site_name`.

    Added support for open graph optional property `site_name`.

    Hi, I added supported for the open graph site_name property.

    This parse the following tag... <meta property="og:site_name" content="IMDb" /> into {"site_name": "IMDb"}

    opened by cameronmaske 3
  • make image urls absolute and added mock to test_requirements

    make image urls absolute and added mock to test_requirements

    I made a change so that when lassie.fetch is called with all_images=True the images src attributes contain absolute URLs. Since lassie already comes with a function that makes relative URLs absolute, I think it's better done inside lassie than in the application which imports it.

    When trying to run the tests after the changes the mock package was missing, so I added it to the test_requirements.txt file.

    opened by yaph 2
  • docs: Fix a few typos

    docs: Fix a few typos

    There are small typos in:

    • docs/usage/advanced_usage.rst

    Fixes:

    • Should read attributes rather than attibutes.
    • Should read actual rather than acutal.

    Semi-automated pull request generated by https://github.com/timgates42/meticulous/blob/master/docs/NOTE.md

    opened by timgates42 0
  • Any reason to pindown upper version in requirements.txt

    Any reason to pindown upper version in requirements.txt

    Hi,

    Since lassie is a library, limiting upper versions for dependencies as in

    requests>=2.18.4,<3.0.0
    beautifulsoup4>=4.9.0,<4.10.0
    

    can lead to conflicts for software using it, e.g. on pip install:

    The conflict is caused by:
        The user requested beautifulsoup4==4.10.0
        lassie 0.11.11 depends on beautifulsoup4<4.10.0 and >=4.9.0
    

    Is there any reason for the pindown?

    opened by idlesign 1
  • Encoding issues with german umlauts

    Encoding issues with german umlauts

    Hi,

    when getting the description from a German website the "ü" "ä" etc. end up being "ä", "ü" etc. Example: https://finanzguru.de/ Result:

    Finanzguru - Finanzen magisch einfach Finanzen magisch einfach. Verwalte deine Verträge, kündige per Fingertipp und spare Geld mit meinen Spartipps. Alles an einem Ort und komplett kostenfrei. Einfacher war es noch nie.

    I am using lassie within Django.

    opened by leugh 0
  • Add new filters for embeddable items

    Add new filters for embeddable items

    The idea is to return as much data as we can in the API so users can possibly embed media. (i.e. Spotify tracks)

    We'll probably add a new embed.py and return a new embed key in the lassie API response.

    enhancement 
    opened by michaelhelmick 0
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