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AndyTheFactory/newspaper4k

📰 Newspaper4k a fork of the beloved Newspaper3k. Extraction of articles, titles, and metadata from news websites. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/AndyTheFactory/newspaper4k · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

84/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 69
  • Longevity 74
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 102
  • age_days: 1046
  • days_rel: 45
  • days_push: 9
  • n_releases_24m: 4

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1140 stars · 115 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Newspaper4k is a Python library and CLI for scraping and curating news articles, extracting text, titles, authors, publish dates, and metadata from news websites. It is an actively maintained fork of the popular newspaper3k project with a compatible API.

Use cases

  • extract article text from news urls
  • scrape news websites for article metadata
  • parse authors and publish dates from articles
  • build datasets from news articles
  • download and curate newspaper articles in python
  • extract articles from urls to from the command line

When to choose

  • you need article text and metadata from news sites in Python
  • you are migrating from newspaper3k and want a maintained fork
  • you want a quick CLI to dump an article as JSON

When to avoid

  • you need general-purpose web scraping of arbitrary page structures
  • you need JavaScript-rendered content extraction
  • you need a full crawler framework with scheduling

Facets

library · maturity active

web-scraping parser nlp cli crawlers data-science developer-tools python cli cross-platform article-extraction news-scraping metadata-extraction newspaper3k-fork natural-language-processing

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