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A Lightweight and Versatile NLP Toolkit

v1.1.1 · Mar 17, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE

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A toolkit for web scraping, modular NLP pipelines, and text preparation for large language models. Organized around four core actions: fetching, reading, processing, and searching. Covers the full pipeline from raw web data acquisition to structural text processing and BM25 indexing. Supports multiple retrieval strategies including regex, dictionary matching, and ranked keyword search. Pipe-friendly with no heavy dependencies; all outputs are plain data frames or data.tables.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies data.table httr Matrix rvest stringi stringr xml2 pbapply jsonlite lubridate textpress

Version History

updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Mar 17, 2026
new 1.1.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Feb 22, 2026
new 1.0.0 Oct 13, 2024