extracting HTML fragments and counting words

[Ksenia Marasanova]

Hi,

I want to show preview  of several HTML formatted newsitems on one
page, preserving markup (and images) intact, but showing not more
thatn X first _readable_ words of every page. Is anyone aware of some
Python library that makes programming this easy? I already started to
program it with Beautiful Soup, but maybe there is a more easy way...

Thanks!
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Ksenia