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)

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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