articleDateExtractor (Article Date Extractor) is a simple open source Python module, built and maintained by Webhose.io, that automatically detects, extracts and normalizes the publication date of an online article or blog post.

1. Extracting the publication date information when it is specified in a web page, with over 90% success rate.

    import articleDateExtractor

    d = articleDateExtractor.extractArticlePublishedDate("http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/28/opinions/sutter-cop21-paris-preview-two-degrees/index.html")

    print d

    d = articleDateExtractor.extractArticlePublishedDate("http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/29/tyro-payments/")

    print d

You can install from source:

    $ git clone https://github.com/Webhose/article-date-extractor
    $ cd article-date-extractor
    $ python setup.py install

• BeautifulSoup >= 3.2.1
• python-dateutil >= 2.4.2