Source code for trafilatura.utils

# pylint:disable-msg=E0611,I1101
"""
Module bundling functions related to HTML and text processing,
content filtering and language detection.
"""

try:
    import gzip
    HAS_GZIP = True
except ImportError:
    HAS_GZIP = False

import logging
import re

try:
    import zlib
    HAS_ZLIB = True
except ImportError:
    HAS_ZLIB = False

from functools import lru_cache
from itertools import islice
from typing import Any, cast, List, Literal, Optional, Tuple, Union
from unicodedata import normalize

# response compression
try:
    import brotli  # type: ignore
    HAS_BROTLI = True
except ImportError:
    HAS_BROTLI = False

try:
    import zstandard
    HAS_ZSTD = True
except ImportError:
    HAS_ZSTD = False

# language detection
try:
    import py3langid  # type: ignore
    LANGID_FLAG = True
except ImportError:
    LANGID_FLAG = False

# CChardet is faster and can be more accurate
try:
    from cchardet import detect as cchardet_detect  # type: ignore
except ImportError:
    cchardet_detect = None

from charset_normalizer import from_bytes
from lxml.etree import _Element
from lxml.html import HtmlElement, HTMLParser, fromstring
# response types
from urllib3.response import HTTPResponse


LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

UNICODE_ALIASES = {'utf-8', 'utf_8'}

DOCTYPE_TAG = re.compile("^< ?! ?DOCTYPE[^>]*/[^<]*>", re.I)
FAULTY_HTML = re.compile(r"(<html.*?)\s*/>", re.I)
HTML_STRIP_TAGS = re.compile(r'(<!--.*?-->|<[^>]*>)')
# control characters
INVALID_XML_CHARS = re.compile(r'[\x00-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\ufffe\uffff]')

# note: htmldate could use HTML comments
# huge_tree=True, remove_blank_text=True
HTML_PARSER = HTMLParser(collect_ids=False, default_doctype=False, encoding='utf-8', remove_comments=True, remove_pis=True)

LINES_TRIMMING = re.compile(r'(?<![p{P}>])\n', flags=re.UNICODE|re.MULTILINE)

URL_BLACKLIST_REGEX = re.compile(r'^https?://|/+$')

# Regex to check image file extensions
IMAGE_EXTENSION = re.compile(r'[^\s]+\.(avif|bmp|gif|hei[cf]|jpe?g|png|webp)(\b|$)')

FORMATTING_PROTECTED = {'cell', 'head', 'hi', 'item', 'p', 'quote', 'ref', 'td'}
SPACING_PROTECTED = {'code', 'pre'}

# https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Language
TARGET_LANG_ATTRS = ('http-equiv="content-language"', 'property="og:locale"')
RE_HTML_LANG = re.compile(r'([a-z]{2})')

# Mostly filters for social media
RE_FILTER = re.compile(r'\W*(Drucken|E-?Mail|Facebook|Flipboard|Google|Instagram|'
                        'Linkedin|Mail|PDF|Pinterest|Pocket|Print|QQ|Reddit|Twitter|'
                        'WeChat|WeiBo|Whatsapp|Xing|Mehr zum Thema:?|More on this.{,8}$)$',
                       flags=re.IGNORECASE)
# COMMENTS_BLACKLIST = ('( Abmelden / Ändern )') # Fill in your details below|Trage deine Daten unten|Kommentar verfassen|Bitte logge dich|Hinterlasse einen Kommentar| to %s| mit %s)


def handle_compressed_file(filecontent: bytes) -> bytes:
    """
    Don't trust response headers and try to decompress a binary string
    with a cascade of installed packages. Use magic numbers when available.
    """
    if not isinstance(filecontent, bytes):
        return filecontent

    # source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3703276/how-to-tell-if-a-file-is-gzip-compressed
    if HAS_GZIP and filecontent[:3] == b"\x1f\x8b\x08":
        try:
            return gzip.decompress(filecontent)
        except Exception:  # EOFError, OSError, gzip.BadGzipFile
            LOGGER.warning("invalid GZ file")
    # try zstandard
    if HAS_ZSTD and filecontent[:4] == b"\x28\xb5\x2f\xfd":
        try:
            return zstandard.decompress(filecontent)  # max_output_size=???
        except zstandard.ZstdError:
            LOGGER.warning("invalid ZSTD file")
    # try brotli
    if HAS_BROTLI:
        try:
            return brotli.decompress(filecontent)
        except brotli.error:
            pass  # logging.debug('invalid Brotli file')
    # try zlib/deflate
    if HAS_ZLIB:
        try:
            return zlib.decompress(filecontent)
        except zlib.error:
            pass

    # return content unchanged if decompression failed
    return filecontent


def isutf8(data: bytes) -> bool:
    """Simple heuristic to determine if a bytestring uses standard unicode encoding"""
    try:
        data.decode('UTF-8')
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        return False
    return True


def detect_encoding(bytesobject: bytes) -> List[str]:
    """"Read all input or first chunk and return a list of encodings"""
    # alternatives: https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib/blob/master/w3lib/encoding.py
    # unicode-test
    if isutf8(bytesobject):
        return ['utf-8']
    guesses = []
    # additional module
    if cchardet_detect is not None:
        cchardet_guess = cchardet_detect(bytesobject)['encoding']
        if cchardet_guess is not None:
            guesses.append(cchardet_guess.lower())
    # try charset_normalizer on first part, fallback on full document
    if len(bytesobject) < 10000:
        detection_results = from_bytes(bytesobject)
    else:
        detection_results = from_bytes(bytesobject[:5000] + bytesobject[-5000:]) or \
                            from_bytes(bytesobject)
    # return alternatives
    if len(detection_results) > 0:
        guesses.extend([r.encoding for r in detection_results])
    # it cannot be utf-8 (tested above)
    return [g for g in guesses if g not in UNICODE_ALIASES]


[docs] def decode_file(filecontent: Union[bytes, str]) -> str: """Check if the bytestring could be GZip and eventually decompress it, guess bytestring encoding and try to decode to Unicode string. Resort to destructive conversion otherwise.""" if isinstance(filecontent, str): return filecontent htmltext = None # GZip and Brotli test filecontent = handle_compressed_file(filecontent) # encoding for guessed_encoding in detect_encoding(filecontent): try: htmltext = filecontent.decode(guessed_encoding) except (LookupError, UnicodeDecodeError): # VISCII: lookup LOGGER.warning('wrong encoding detected: %s', guessed_encoding) htmltext = None else: break # return original content if nothing else succeeded return htmltext or str(filecontent, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
def is_dubious_html(beginning: str) -> bool: "Assess if the object is proper HTML (awith a corresponding tag or declaration)." return "html" not in beginning def repair_faulty_html(htmlstring: str, beginning: str) -> str: "Repair faulty HTML strings to make then palatable for libxml2." htmlstring = INVALID_XML_CHARS.sub("", htmlstring) # libxml2/LXML issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1955915 if "doctype" in beginning: firstline, _, rest = htmlstring.partition("\n") htmlstring = DOCTYPE_TAG.sub("", firstline, count=1) + "\n" + rest # other issue with malformed documents: check first three lines for i, line in enumerate(iter(htmlstring.splitlines())): if "<html" in line and line.endswith("/>"): htmlstring = FAULTY_HTML.sub(r"\1>", htmlstring, count=1) break if i > 2: break return htmlstring def fromstring_bytes(htmlobject: str) -> Optional[HtmlElement]: "Try to pass bytes to LXML parser." tree = None try: tree = fromstring(htmlobject.encode("utf8", "surrogatepass"), parser=HTML_PARSER) except Exception as err: LOGGER.error("lxml parser bytestring %s", err) return tree
[docs] def load_html(htmlobject: Any) -> Optional[HtmlElement]: """Load object given as input and validate its type (accepted: lxml.html tree, trafilatura/urllib3 response, bytestring and string) """ # use tree directly if isinstance(htmlobject, HtmlElement): return htmlobject # use trafilatura or urllib3 responses directly if isinstance(htmlobject, HTTPResponse) or hasattr(htmlobject, "data"): htmlobject = htmlobject.data # do not accept any other type after this point if not isinstance(htmlobject, (bytes, str)): raise TypeError("incompatible input type", type(htmlobject)) # start processing tree = None # try to guess encoding and decode file: if None then keep original htmlobject = decode_file(htmlobject) # sanity checks beginning = htmlobject[:50].lower() check_flag = is_dubious_html(beginning) # repair first htmlobject = repair_faulty_html(htmlobject, beginning) # first pass: use Unicode string fallback_parse = False try: tree = fromstring(htmlobject, parser=HTML_PARSER) except ValueError: # "Unicode strings with encoding declaration are not supported." tree = fromstring_bytes(htmlobject) fallback_parse = True except Exception as err: # pragma: no cover LOGGER.error("lxml parsing failed: %s", err) # second pass: try passing bytes to LXML if (tree is None or len(tree) < 1) and not fallback_parse: tree = fromstring_bytes(htmlobject) # rejection test: is it (well-formed) HTML at all? # log parsing errors if tree is not None and check_flag is True and len(tree) < 2: LOGGER.error( "parsed tree length: %s, wrong data type or not valid HTML", len(tree) ) tree = None return tree
@lru_cache(maxsize=2**14) # sys.maxunicode = 1114111 def return_printables_and_spaces(char: str) -> str: 'Return a character if it belongs to certain classes' return char if char.isprintable() or char.isspace() else '' def remove_control_characters(string: str) -> str: '''Prevent non-printable and XML invalid character errors''' # in case most strings are already clean if string.isprintable(): return string return ''.join(map(return_printables_and_spaces, string)) def normalize_unicode(string: str, unicodeform: Literal['NFC', 'NFD', 'NFKC', 'NFKD'] = 'NFC') -> str: 'Normalize the given string to the specified unicode format.' return normalize(unicodeform, string) @lru_cache(maxsize=1024) def line_processing(line: str, preserve_space: bool = False, trailing_space: bool = False) -> Optional[str]: '''Remove HTML space entities, then discard incompatible unicode and invalid XML characters on line level''' # spacing HTML entities: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_13.html # unique code spaces new_line = remove_control_characters(line.replace('&#13;', '\r').replace('&#10;', '\n').replace('&nbsp;', '\u00A0')) if not preserve_space: # remove newlines that are not related to punctuation or markup # remove non-printable chars and normalize space characters (including Unicode spaces) new_line = trim(LINES_TRIMMING.sub(r" ", new_line)) # prune empty lines if all(map(str.isspace, new_line)): new_line = None # type: ignore[assignment] elif trailing_space: space_before = " " if line[0].isspace() else "" space_after = " " if line[-1].isspace() else "" new_line = "".join([space_before, new_line, space_after]) return new_line
[docs] def sanitize(text: str, preserve_space: bool = False, trailing_space: bool = False) -> Optional[str]: '''Convert text and discard incompatible and invalid characters''' # consider all text as a single line if trailing_space: return line_processing(text, preserve_space, True) # process line by line try: return '\n'.join(filter(None, (line_processing(l, preserve_space) for l in text.splitlines()))).replace('\u2424', '') except AttributeError: return None
def sanitize_tree(tree: _Element) -> _Element: '''Trims spaces, removes control characters and normalizes unicode''' for elem in tree.iter(): parent = elem.getparent() parent_tag = parent.tag if parent is not None else "" # preserve space if the element or its parent is a specific tag, or if the element has text and children # the last part is relevant for item elements with ref inside for example preserve_space = elem.tag in SPACING_PROTECTED or parent_tag in SPACING_PROTECTED trailing_space = elem.tag in FORMATTING_PROTECTED or parent_tag in FORMATTING_PROTECTED or preserve_space # remove invalid attributes for attribute in elem.attrib: if ':' in attribute: # colon is reserved for namespaces in XML if not elem.attrib[attribute] or attribute.split(':', 1)[0] not in tree.nsmap: elem.attrib.pop(attribute) if elem.text: elem.text = sanitize(elem.text, preserve_space, trailing_space) if elem.tail: elem.tail = sanitize(elem.tail, preserve_space, trailing_space) return tree
[docs] @lru_cache(maxsize=1024) def trim(string: str) -> str: "Remove unnecessary spaces within a text string." try: # remove newlines that are not related to punctuation or markup + proper trimming return " ".join(string.split()).strip() except (AttributeError, TypeError): return ""
def is_image_element(element: _Element) -> bool: '''Check if an element is a valid img element''' for attr in ("data-src", "src"): src = element.get(attr, "") if is_image_file(src): return True else: # take the first corresponding attribute for attr, value in element.attrib.items(): if attr.startswith("data-src") and is_image_file(value): return True return False def is_image_file(imagesrc: Optional[str]) -> bool: '''Check if the observed string corresponds to a valid image extension. Use a length threshold and apply a regex on the content.''' if imagesrc is None or len(imagesrc) > 8192: return False return bool(IMAGE_EXTENSION.search(imagesrc)) def make_chunks(iterable: Any, n: int) -> Any: "Chunk data into smaller pieces." # 3.12+: https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.batched iterator = iter(iterable) while batch := tuple(islice(iterator, n)): yield batch def is_acceptable_length(my_len: int, options: Any) -> bool: "Check if the document length is within acceptable boundaries." if my_len < options.min_file_size: LOGGER.error("too small/incorrect for URL %s", options.url) return False if my_len > options.max_file_size: LOGGER.error("too large: length %s for URL %s", my_len, options.url) return False return True def check_html_lang(tree: HtmlElement, target_language: str, strict: bool = False) -> bool: """Check HTML meta-elements for language information and split the result in case there are several languages.""" for attr in TARGET_LANG_ATTRS: elems = tree.findall(f'.//meta[@{attr}][@content]') if elems: if any(target_language in RE_HTML_LANG.split(elem.get("content", "").lower()) for elem in elems): return True LOGGER.debug("%s lang attr failed", attr) return False # HTML lang attribute: sometimes a wrong indication if strict: elems = tree.xpath("//html[@lang]") if elems: if any(target_language in RE_HTML_LANG.split(elem.get("lang", "").lower()) for elem in elems): return True LOGGER.debug("HTML lang failed") return False LOGGER.debug("No relevant lang elements found") return True def language_classifier(temp_text: str, temp_comments: str) -> Optional[str]: '''Run external component (if installed) for language identification''' if LANGID_FLAG is True: result, _ = ( py3langid.classify(temp_text) if len(temp_text) > len(temp_comments) else py3langid.classify(temp_comments) ) else: # pragma: no cover LOGGER.warning('Language detector not installed, skipping detection') result = None return result def language_filter(temp_text: str, temp_comments: str, target_language: str, docmeta: Any) -> Tuple[bool, Any]: '''Filter text based on language detection and store relevant information''' # todo: run and pass info along anyway? if target_language is not None: # more thorough: detection on actual text content docmeta.language = language_classifier(temp_text, temp_comments) # HTML lang check? sometimes contradicted by detection above #if docmeta.language is None: # if check_html_lang(tree, target_language) is False: # LOGGER.error('wrong HTML meta language for URL %s', url) # raise ValueError if docmeta.language is not None and docmeta.language != target_language: LOGGER.warning('wrong language: %s %s', docmeta.language, docmeta.url) return True, docmeta return False, docmeta def textfilter(element: _Element) -> bool: '''Filter out unwanted text''' testtext = element.tail if element.text is None else element.text # to check: line len → continue if len(line) <= 5 return not testtext or testtext.isspace() or any(map(RE_FILTER.match, testtext.splitlines())) def text_chars_test(string: Optional[str]) -> bool: '''Determine if a string is only composed of spaces and/or control characters''' # or not re.search(r'\w', string) # return string is not None and len(string) != 0 and not string.isspace() return bool(string) and not string.isspace() # type: ignore[union-attr] def copy_attributes(dest_elem: _Element, src_elem: _Element) -> None: '''Copy attributes from src element to dest element''' for key in src_elem.keys(): dest_elem.set(key, src_elem.attrib[key]) def is_in_table_cell(elem: _Element) -> bool: '''Check whether an element is in a table cell''' # return elem.getparent() is not None and bool(elem.xpath('//ancestor::cell')) if elem.getparent() is None: return False current: Optional[_Element] = elem while current is not None: if current.tag == 'cell': return True current = current.getparent() return False def is_last_element_in_cell(elem: _Element) -> bool: '''Check whether an element is the last element in table cell''' if not is_in_table_cell(elem): # shortcut return False if elem.tag == "cell": children = elem.getchildren() return not children or children[-1] == elem else: parent = cast(_Element, elem.getparent()) children = parent.getchildren() return not children or children[-1] == elem def is_element_in_item(element: _Element) -> bool: """Check whether an element is a list item or within a list item""" current: Optional[_Element] = element while current is not None: if current.tag == 'item': return True current = current.getparent() return False def is_first_element_in_item(element: _Element) -> bool: """Check whether an element is the first element in list item""" if element.tag == 'item' and element.text: return True current: Optional[_Element] = element item_ancestor = None while current is not None: if current.tag == 'item': item_ancestor = current break current = current.getparent() if item_ancestor is None: return False elif not item_ancestor.text: return True return False def is_last_element_in_item(element: _Element) -> bool: """Check whether an element is the last element in list item""" if not is_element_in_item(element): return False # pure text only in list item if element.tag == 'item': return len(element.getchildren()) == 0 # element within list item next_element = element.getnext() if next_element is None: return True else: return next_element.tag == 'item'