scrapinghub/dateparser

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A Python library that parses human-readable dates in almost any format, including relative expressions like 'two weeks ago', timestamps, and dates in over 200 language locales. It supports language autodetection, non-Gregorian calendars, timezone offsets, and searching for dates within longer text.

Use cases

• parse dates like 'two weeks ago' or 'tomorrow' in python
• extract dates from web pages in multiple languages
• convert human readable date strings to datetime objects
• detect dates in long text passages
• parse dates with timezone abbreviations like EST
• handle non-Gregorian calendar dates

When to choose

• you need to parse messy, multilingual, or relative date strings from scraped content
• you don't know the date format or language in advance
• you need to find dates embedded in longer text

When to avoid

• you only need to parse a single known fixed date format (use datetime.strptime)
• you need high-performance bulk parsing with minimal dependencies
• you need to format dates for output rather than parse them

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser nlp date-time developer-tools crawlers python cross-platform date-parsing human-readable-dates multilingual timezone-parsing web-scraping natural-language-processing

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