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https://github.com/akoumjian/datefinder

Find dates inside text using Python and get back datetime objects
https://github.com/akoumjian/datefinder

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Find dates inside text using Python and get back datetime objects

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datefinder - extract dates from text
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A python module for locating dates inside text. Use this package to extract all sorts
of date like strings from a document and turn them into datetime objects.

This module finds the likely datetime strings and then uses
`dateutil` to convert to the datetime object.

Installation
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**With pip**

.. code-block:: sh

pip install datefinder

**Note: I do not publish the version on conda forge and cannot verify its integrity.**

How to Use
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.. code-block:: python

In [1]: string_with_dates = """
...: ...
...: entries are due by January 4th, 2017 at 8:00pm
...: ...
...: created 01/15/2005 by ACME Inc. and associates.
...: ...
...: """

In [2]: import datefinder

In [3]: matches = datefinder.find_dates(string_with_dates)

In [4]: for match in matches:
...: print match
...:
2017-01-04 20:00:00
2005-01-15 00:00:00

Demo
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- 🎞️ `Video demo`_ by Calmcode.io. :star:

.. _Video demo: https://calmcode.io/shorts/datefinder.py.html