I have a list of 1,000 URLs of articles published by different agencies, and of course each has its own HTML layout.
I am writing a python code to extract ONLY the article body from each URL. Can this be done by only looking at the < p>< /p> Paragraph tags?
Will I be missing some content? or including irrelevant content by this approach?
Thanks
For some articles you will be missing content, and for others you will include irrelevant content. There is really no way to grab just the article body from a URL since each site layout will likely vary significantly.
One thing you could try is grabbing text contained in multiple consecutive p tags inside the body tag, but there is still no guarantee you will get just the body of the article.
It would be a lot easier if you broke the list of URLs into a list for each distinct site, that would you could define what the article body is case by case.
How to extract article contents from websites with different layouts