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 Newspaper3k: Article scraping & curation
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-[![PyPI version](https://badge.fury.io/py/newspaper3k.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/py/newspaper3k)
+![PyPI version](https://badge.fury.io/py/newspaper3k.svg)
 
 Inspired by `requests`_ for its simplicity and powered by `lxml`_ for its speed: