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https://github.com/michaelhelmick/lassie

Web Content Retrieval for Humans™
https://github.com/michaelhelmick/lassie

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Lassie
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Lassie is a Python library for retrieving basic content from websites.

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Usage
-----

.. code-block:: python

>>> import lassie
>>> lassie.fetch('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ')
{
'description': u'Music video by Rick Astley performing Never Gonna Give You Up. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 2,573,462 (C) 1987 PWL',
'videos': [{
'src': u'http://www.youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ?autohide=1&version=3',
'height': 480,
'type': u'application/x-shockwave-flash',
'width': 640
}, {
'src': u'https://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ',
'height': 480,
'width': 640
}],
'title': u'Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up',
'url': u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ',
'keywords': [u'Rick', u'Astley', u'Sony', u'BMG', u'Music', u'UK', u'Pop'],
'images': [{
'src': u'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg?feature=og',
'type': u'og:image'
}, {
'src': u'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg',
'type': u'twitter:image'
}, {
'src': u'http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon-vfldLzJxy.ico',
'type': u'favicon'
}, {
'src': u'http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon_32-vflWoMFGx.png',
'type': u'favicon'
}],
'locale': u'en_US'
}

Install
-------

Install Lassie via `pip `_

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install lassie

or, with `easy_install `_

.. code-block:: bash

$ easy_install lassie

But, hey... `that's up to you `_.

Documentation
-------------

Documentation can be found here: https://lassie.readthedocs.org/