htmldate-0.6.1

htmldate finds original and updated publication dates of any web page. All the steps needed from web page download to HTML parsing, scraping and text analysis are included.

In a nutshell, with Python:

from htmldate import find_date
find_date('http://blog.python.org/2016/12/python-360-is-now-available.html')
'2016-12-23'
find_date('https://netzpolitik.org/2016/die-cider-connection-abmahnungen-gegen-nutzer-von-creative-commons-bildern/', original_date=True)
'2016-06-23'

On the command-line:

$ htmldate -u http://blog.python.org/2016/12/python-360-is-now-available.html
'2016-12-23'

Releases used in production and meant to be archived on Zenodo for reproducibility and citability.

For more information see htmldate.readthedocs.io