https://github.com/mugendi/parse-dates

Easy dates parser that leverages on the power of n-gramify & http://www.datejs.com to parse dates that other parsers would fail. The concept is simple, instead on Regex, tokenize string into 'reducing ngrams' & extract!
https://github.com/mugendi/parse-dates

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Easy dates parser that leverages on the power of n-gramify & http://www.datejs.com to parse dates that other parsers would fail. The concept is simple, instead on Regex, tokenize string into 'reducing ngrams' & extract!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mugendi/parse-dates
• Owner: mugendi
• Created: 2015-07-21T14:33:32.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-01-10T08:43:52.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-25T12:24:08.446Z (18 days ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 15.6 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Extract dates from text

Easy dates parser that leverages on the power of [n-gramify](https://www.npmjs.com/package/n-gramify), [datejs](http://www.datejs.com) & [dehumanize-date](https://www.npmjs.com/package/dehumanize-date) to parse dates that other parsers would fail. 

The concept is simple, instead on Regex, we tokenize the string into 'reducing ngrams' & then extract dates!

**datejs** does the initial parsing & then we use **dehumanize-date** to confirm parsed tokens & format them.

```javascript

var parse_date = require ( 'parse-dates' )

var s=" Peter was born in 5th january 1994 will be 44 years old next week. "

var parsed=parse_date(s)

console.log(JSON.stringify(parsed,0,4));

```

Output:

```json

{

    "dates": [

        "1994-01-05T00:00:00.000Z"

    ],

    "string": {

        "in": " Peter was born in 5th january 1994 and will be 44 years old next week. ",

        "out": " Peter was born in 1994-01-05T00:00:00.000Z and will be 44 years old next week. ",

        "annotated": " Peter was born in {DATE: 1994-01-05T00:00:00.000Z} and will be 44 years old next week. "

    }

}                                                

  ```