method to extract ncl of a story

CrowdVoyant · May 7, 2016 · 2e85ec7 · 2e85ec7
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+""" Methods for Regex Operations """
+import re
+
+def get_ncl(link):
+""" Method to extract ncl value of a story"""
+	ncl_string = re.findall("ncl=.*?&",link)
+	if ncl_string:
+		return ncl_string[0][4:-1]
+	else:
+		return ''