We need a framework that will allow us to pick out news story text out of the HTML from pages of newspaper websites. The goal is to have as little customization per news site as possible but some customization is OK.
Context:
Newspaper websites have lots of junk on the page. We need to process just the "article text" including the title, etc. We want to strip out the advertisements, links to "related stories."
If you have an existing technology that will help us, so much the better. A Demo would be greatly helpful.
Also would like to hear if you can handle blacklist by the sites.
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.
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## Platform
PERL, PHP, .NET