Goose-In-Flask

A simple Flask web service around excellent Goose - Article Extractor

Installation

It depends on Flask and JPype

Flask installation is fairly straightforward

pip install flask

To install JPype you need to download it from SourceForge first https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpype/files/

If you installing it on Mac OS X Lion, I would recommend to read this blog post first http://blog.y3xz.com/post/5037243230/installing-jpype-on-mac-os-x

On Debian you can just type

apt-get install python-jpype

To extract top image from the articles you will also need to have ImageMagic installed.

Getting started

Start an application

python application.py

Then open your browser and type in:

http://127.0.0.1:5000/?url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12275979

If top_image is always empty, make sure that CONVERT_PATH and IDENTIFY_PATH are correct. To override them copy/rename "application.cfg.example" to "application.cfg" and specify your own values.

Using latest version of Goose

To use latest version of Goose you will need to complile it yourself using Maven.

 git clone git://github.com/jiminoc/goose.git
 cd goose
 mvn package
 mvn dependency:copy-dependencies

Then copy "target/goose-.jar" and all .jar files from "target/dependency" folder to "goose-in-flask/build" folder.