GoOse

HTML Content / Article Extractor in Golang

Description

This is a golang port of "Goose" originaly licensed to Gravity.com under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.

Golang port was written by Antonio Linari

Gravity.com licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

INSTALL

go get github.com/advancedlogic/GoOse

HOW TO USE IT

package main

import (
	"github.com/advancedlogic/GoOse"
)

func main() {
	g := goose.New()
	article, _ := g.ExtractFromURL("http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/08/opinion/banzi-ted-open-source/index.html")
	println("title", article.Title)
	println("description", article.MetaDescription)
	println("keywords", article.MetaKeywords)
	println("content", article.CleanedText)
	println("url", article.FinalURL)
	println("top image", article.TopImage)
}

Development - Getting started

This application is written in GO language, please refere to the guides in https://golang.org for getting started.

This project include a Makefile that allows you to test and build the project with simple commands. To see all available options:

make help

To build the project

make build

Before committing the code, please check if it passes all tests using

make deps
make qa

TODO

• better organize code
• add comments and godoc
• improve "xpath" like queries
• add other image extractions techniques (imagemagick)

THANKS TO

@Martin Angers for goquery
@Fatih Arslan for set
GoLang team for the amazing language and net/html