Spider

Article extraction through clustering

View the Project on GitHub ziyan/spider


Demo

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By Ziyan Zhou and Lei Sun for CS221

Welcome!

15 Aug 2013

Spider is a web content extraction robot who master its technique by learning through examples. Feed it with multiple article pages from the same site and it will (hopefully) accurately extract the content of an article.

Some known limitations:

  • Currently only works with English
  • Some sites have Content Security Policy (CSP) protection and the bookmarklet may not work
  • Some sites convert my POST request to a GET, I haven't figured out why yet
  • Some sites are too big and complicated to capture
  • Need to have at least 2 pages as examples for a new site, so keep on capturing :)
  • Learning can be slow after given too many examples

You can help us make Spider smarter and improve our algorithm by trying out the bookmarklet.

Thanks very much! :)