Date-parser

Parse different date strings into datetime objects.

Installation

pip3 install date-parser

Usage

from date_parser.parser import DateParser
dp = DateParser()

Natural language

dp.parse_date('September 24th 1929')
>> datetime.datetime(1929, 9, 24, 0, 0)

Natural language - shortened month

dp.parse_date('Jan 14th 1999')
>> datetime.datetime(1999, 1, 14, 0, 0, 0)

Hyphens

dp.parse_date('01-01-2017')
>> datetime.datetime(2017, 1, 1, 0, 0)

Dots

dp.parse_date('19.11.1984')
>> datetime.datetime(1984, 11, 19, 0, 0, 0)

Forward slash

dp.parse_date('30/09/1542)
>> datetime.datetime(1542, 9, 30, 0, 0, 0)

Another natural language example

print(dp.parse_date('On 2012, I believe it was May 19th, Chelsea won the Champions League.'))
>> 2012-05-19 00:00:00