AndyTheFactory/newspaper4k
📰 Newspaper4k a fork of the beloved Newspaper3k. Extraction of articles, titles, and metadata from news websites. observed · 2026-10-07
Health v2 · maintenance only
78/100
- Activity 91
- Release rhythm 62
- Longevity 78
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 102
- age_days: 1094
- days_rel: 93
- days_push: 57
- n_releases_24m: 4
Adoption not part of the score
1149 stars · 116 forks observed · 2026-10-07
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
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/AndyTheFactory/newspaper4k · fetched 2026-10-07 · 316a405e93a7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| AndyTheFactory/newspaper4k | main | 78 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="AndyTheFactory/newspaper4k")
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