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Newspaper language detection not working with CNN news
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Description
So, does anybody know why, when I try to fetch an article from CNN website (eg. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/26/india/india-delhi-violence-ashok-nagar-intl/index.html ) I get no meta_lang?
I used
from newspaper import Article, article
a = Article("https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/26/india/india-delhi-violence-ashok-nagar-intl/index.html")
a.download()
a.parse()
and i see:
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Reproduce the report with the supplied CNN URL and the shown Article download/parse sequence. Start by tracing how the parsed article's meta_lang value is populated, then determine why it is absent and verify that the behavior is corrected for this example.
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