HTMLDate

Extract date strings from HTML documents or articles.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding html_date to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
[
{:html_date, "~> 0.1.0"}
]
end

Usage

original_url = "https://www.example.org/articles/2020/07/12..."
raw_html = "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html class=..."
{:ok, ["2021-07-11T06:39:43+02:00", "/2021/07/09/"...]} = HTMLDate.parse(raw_html, original_url)

Docs

Documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/html_date.

Credits

https://github.com/mediacloud/date_guesser

https://github.com/Webhose/article-date-extractor