Evaluation of date extraction tools for Python

htmldate performs better than the other Python solutions, it is also noticeably faster. Especially for smaller news outlets, websites and blogs, as well as pages written in languages other than English, it greatly extends date extraction coverage without sacrificing precision.

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A module to extract date information from web pages

Date is a critical component for web archives since it is one of the few metadata that are relevant for philologists and information scientists alike. The Python library htmldate provides a way to extract the creation or modification date of web pages.

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