This is a simple script to automatically extract excerpts from articles. It requires BeautifulSoup. Usage: from excerpt_extractor import get_summary url = "http://someurl.com/goes/here" (title,description) = get_summary(url) ========================================== Some examples, discussion, and comparison with the Facebook article extractor are at http://blog.davidziegler.net/post/122176962/a-python-script-to-automatically-extract-excerpts-from copyright: Copyright 2009 by David Ziegler license: MIT License website: http://github.com/dziegler/excerpt_extractor/tree/master