David Ziegler's Blog - A Python Script to Automatically Extract Excerpts From Articles
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I recently had to write a script that takes a link to an article and returns a title and brief excerpt or description of that article

I recently had to write a script that takes a link to an article and returns a title and brief excerpt or description of that article. Ideally, the excerpt should be the first few sentences from the body of the article.

I recently had to write a script that takes a link to an article and returns a title and brief excerpt or description of that article. Ideally, the excerpt should be the first few sentences from the body of the article. The first thing I struggled with was something I thought would be trivial: fetching the contents of the webpage.

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