Extruct

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extruct is a Data & Analytics tool that extracts embedded metadata from HTML markup. It supports various formats like Microdata, JSON-LD, Open Graph, RDFa, and Dublin Core.

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Pricing

Open Source

Free tier

Yes

API

Yes

Skill level

Technical

About

What is extruct?

extruct is an open-source Python library designed for extracting embedded metadata from HTML markup. It supports a wide range of popular metadata formats including W3C's HTML Microdata, embedded JSON-LD, Microformat via mf2py, Facebook's Open Graph (experimental), RDFa via rdflib, and Dublin Core Metadata (DC-HTML-2003). The tool allows users to perform all-in-one extraction from an HTML string or a parsed HTML tree, with the option to select specific syntaxes for extraction. It also offers a uniform output format for easier processing and can return references to HTML nodes for microdata items, providing granular control over the extracted data. This makes it a powerful tool for developers and data professionals working with web scraping and structured data retrieval.

Best used for

Ideal for developers and data professionals who need to extract structured data from web pages, parse various metadata formats, and integrate web data into applications. Especially valuable for web scraping projects requiring detailed metadata retrieval and uniform data processing.

Common actions

extract metadata

scrape structured data

parse HTML

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Capabilities

Key features

Extract Microdata
Extract JSON-LD
Extract Open Graph
Extract RDFa
Extract Dublin Core
Uniform output formatting
Return HTML nodes

Target Audience

developersdata scientistsweb scrapersseo specialists

Integrations

Not yet documented

Pricing & Plans

Open Source

Free

FAQs

What metadata formats does extruct support?

extruct supports a variety of formats including W3C's HTML Microdata, embedded JSON-LD, Microformat via mf2py, Facebook's Open Graph, RDFa via rdflib, and Dublin Core Metadata (DC-HTML-2003). This allows for comprehensive metadata extraction from diverse web pages.

Can I select specific metadata syntaxes to extract?

Yes, extruct allows you to specify which syntaxes you want to extract by passing a list of desired formats to the `extract` method. If no list is provided, it will extract all supported syntaxes by default.

Does extruct provide a uniform output format for extracted data?

Yes, by setting `uniform=True` when calling the `extract` method, extruct can uniform the output of microformat, opengraph, microdata, dublincore, and json-ld syntaxes into a consistent structure for easier programmatic access and processing.

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