Forbes articles don't work.

[fergyfresh]

I was using BeautifulSoup to scrape through a Forbes article to pull out the text until I realized Alchemy has an API to do this. I was running into an annoying scenario where the landing page for any forbes article is the forbes/home page with a 'Continue 3..2..1' displayed on the page. I was able to work around that, but it seems that your API doesn't. Can I feed the raw html from BeautifulSoup to an API call on your end? This would be my quickest workaround. I will be reading the API docs but currently this is what happens.

• URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/09/09/bitcoins-shared-ledger-technology-moneys-new-operating-system/
• What I am expecting is the text on the response object to have the article text, but it has the continue text.

from alchemyapi import AlchemyAPI
import json

# Create the AlchemyAPI Object
alchemyapi = AlchemyAPI()

# Create demo url which will be user input later
demo_url = 'http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/09/09/bitcoins-shared-ledger-technology-moneys-new-operating-system/'

# Created response object from input url
response = alchemyapi.text('url', demo_url)

if response['status'] == 'OK':
    print('## Response Object ##')
    print(json.dumps(response, indent=4))

    print('')
    print('## Text ##')
    print('text: ', response['text'].encode('utf-8'))
    print('')
else:
    print('Error in text extraction call: ', response['statusInfo'])

[steveherschleb]

Hi Billy, I'm no longer the maintainer of this SDK and I should probably
remove this repo. You're questions are probably better answered by the team
at AlchemyAPI, here's their profile: https://github.com/alchemyapi

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Billy Ferguson notifications@github.com
wrote:

I was using BeautifulSoup to scrape through a Forbes article to pull out
the text until I realized Alchemy has an API to do this. I was running into
an annoying scenario where the landing page for any forbes article is the
forbes/home page with a 'Continue 3..2..1' displayed on the page. I was
able to work around that, but it seems that your API doesn't. Can I feed
the raw html from BeautifulSoup to an API call on your end? This would be
my quickest workaround. I will be reading the API docs but currently this
is what happens.

URL:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/09/09/bitcoins-shared-ledger-technology-moneys-new-operating-system/

What I am expecting is the text on the response object to have the article
text, but it has the continue text.

Created response object from input url

response = alchemyapi.text('url', demo_url)

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[fergyfresh]

I couldn't log issues there. Thanks though.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 2:00 PM Steve Herschleb notifications@github.com
wrote:

Hi Billy, I'm no longer the maintainer of this SDK and I should probably
remove this repo. You're questions are probably better answered by the team
at AlchemyAPI, here's their profile: https://github.com/alchemyapi

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Billy Ferguson notifications@github.com
wrote:

I was using BeautifulSoup to scrape through a Forbes article to pull out
the text until I realized Alchemy has an API to do this. I was running
into
an annoying scenario where the landing page for any forbes article is the
forbes/home page with a 'Continue 3..2..1' displayed on the page. I was
able to work around that, but it seems that your API doesn't. Can I feed
the raw html from BeautifulSoup to an API call on your end? This would be
my quickest workaround. I will be reading the API docs but currently this
is what happens.

URL:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/09/09/bitcoins-shared-ledger-technology-moneys-new-operating-system/

What I am expecting is the text on the response object to have the
article
text, but it has the continue text.

Created response object from input url

response = alchemyapi.text('url', demo_url)

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[steveherschleb]

Maybe this would help: http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/contact-support

Sorry I haven't worked there in a few years, so I don't really have any
extra info for you.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Billy Ferguson notifications@github.com
wrote:

I couldn't log issues there. Thanks though.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 2:00 PM Steve Herschleb notifications@github.com
wrote:

Hi Billy, I'm no longer the maintainer of this SDK and I should probably
remove this repo. You're questions are probably better answered by the
team
at AlchemyAPI, here's their profile: https://github.com/alchemyapi

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Billy Ferguson <
notifications@github.com>
wrote:

I was using BeautifulSoup to scrape through a Forbes article to pull
out
the text until I realized Alchemy has an API to do this. I was running
into
an annoying scenario where the landing page for any forbes article is
the
forbes/home page with a 'Continue 3..2..1' displayed on the page. I was
able to work around that, but it seems that your API doesn't. Can I
feed
the raw html from BeautifulSoup to an API call on your end? This would
be
my quickest workaround. I will be reading the API docs but currently
this
is what happens.

URL:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/09/09/bitcoins-shared-ledger-technology-moneys-new-operating-system/

What I am expecting is the text on the response object to have the
article
text, but it has the continue text.

Created response object from input url

response = alchemyapi.text('url', demo_url)

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[fergyfresh]

Thanks man, I emailed the support and just chased the repo to your repo.
On Sep 28, 2015 2:04 PM, "Steve Herschleb" notifications@github.com wrote:

Maybe this would help: http://www.alchemyapi.com/products/contact-support

Sorry I haven't worked there in a few years, so I don't really have any
extra info for you.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Billy Ferguson <notifications@github.com

wrote:

I couldn't log issues there. Thanks though.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015, 2:00 PM Steve Herschleb notifications@github.com
wrote:

Hi Billy, I'm no longer the maintainer of this SDK and I should
probably
remove this repo. You're questions are probably better answered by the
team
at AlchemyAPI, here's their profile: https://github.com/alchemyapi

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Billy Ferguson <
notifications@github.com>
wrote:

I was using BeautifulSoup to scrape through a Forbes article to pull
out
the text until I realized Alchemy has an API to do this. I was
running
into
an annoying scenario where the landing page for any forbes article is
the
forbes/home page with a 'Continue 3..2..1' displayed on the page. I
was
able to work around that, but it seems that your API doesn't. Can I
feed
the raw html from BeautifulSoup to an API call on your end? This
would
be
my quickest workaround. I will be reading the API docs but currently
this
is what happens.

URL:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/09/09/bitcoins-shared-ledger-technology-moneys-new-operating-system/

What I am expecting is the text on the response object to have the
article
text, but it has the continue text.

Created response object from input url

response = alchemyapi.text('url', demo_url)

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