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Request: Article to category mapping

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Description

Is it possible to create a function within the newspaper API to get a category for a specific article based on its URL?

For example of a similar form:
article_category = category(article_url)

Let's say the article URL is:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41355049

and it should return science-environment as a category.

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No files or tests are named. Start by locating the newspaper API entry point for article URLs and the relevant parsing tests, then verify how the supplied BBC URL should produce its category; done means a callable API function returns "science-environment" for that example.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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