Summarify

Summarify is a small Python library to extract a title and description from a Web page.

import summarify

summary = summarify.from_url("https://github.com/")

print(summary.title)
print(summary.description)
print(summary.picture)

Output:

The world's leading software development platform · GitHub
GitHub is where people build software. More than 27 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 75 million projects.
https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/modules/open_graph/github-octocat.png

Install

pip3 install summarify

Usage

import summarify

summary = summarify.from_url("https://...")

# If you already have the HTML:
# summary = summarify.from_html("...")

The Summary object returned from summarify.from_url has the following attributes:

• title (str or None)
• description (str or None)
• url (str or None): The URL you passed as an argument. If you used summary.from_markup, it’ll try to guess it from the markup.
• picture (str or None): Picture URL
• author (str or None)
• publisher (str or None)
• excerpt: Always None for now

You can also export a summary as a dict for e.g. JSON serialization:

dict(my_summary)  # -> {"url": "...", "title": "..."}

Be aware that only the non-None attributes are included in that dictionnary.