Date Extractors

const COPYRIGHT_PATTERN: RegExp;

const DATE_EXPRESSIONS: string;

const DATESTRINGS_CATCH: RegExp;

const DATESTRINGS_PATTERN: RegExp;

const FAST_PREPEND: "" = '';

const FREE_TEXT_EXPRESSIONS: ".//*[self::div or self::h2 or self::h3 or self::h4 or self::li or self::p or self::span or self::time or self::ul]/text()" = ".//*[self::div or self::h2 or self::h3 or self::h4 or self::li or self::p or self::span or self::time or self::ul]/text()";

const MAX_SEGMENT_LEN: 52 = 52;

const MIN_SEGMENT_LEN: 6 = 6;

const MMYYYY_PATTERN: RegExp;

const MMYYYY_YEAR: RegExp;

const SELECT_YMD_PATTERN: RegExp;

const SELECT_YMD_YEAR: RegExp;

const SIMPLE_PATTERN: RegExp;

const SLASHES_PATTERN: RegExp;

const SLASHES_YEAR: RegExp;

const SLOW_PREPEND: "" = "";

const THREE_CATCH: RegExp;

const THREE_COMP_REGEX_A: RegExp;

const THREE_COMP_REGEX_B: RegExp;

const THREE_LOOSE_CATCH: RegExp;

const THREE_LOOSE_PATTERN: RegExp;

const THREE_PATTERN: RegExp;

const TIMESTAMP_PATTERN: RegExp;

const TWO_COMP_REGEX: RegExp;

const YEAR_PATTERN: RegExp;

const YMD_PATTERN: RegExp;

const YMD_YEAR: RegExp;

const YYYYMM_CATCH: RegExp;

const YYYYMM_PATTERN: RegExp;

function custom_parse(
   string: any, 
   outputformat: any, 
   min_date: any, 
   max_date: any): string;

function discard_unwanted(tree: any): any[];

function external_date_parser(string: any, outputformat: any): string;

function extract_url_date(testurl: any, options: any): string;

function idiosyncrasies_search(htmlstring: any, options: any): string;

function img_search(tree: any, options: any): string;

function json_search(tree: any, options: any): any;

function pattern_search(
   text: any, 
   date_pattern: any, 
   options: any): any;

function regex_parse(string: any): Date;

function try_date_expr(
   string: any, 
   outputformat: any, 
   extensive_search: any, 
   min_date: any, 
   max_date: any): string;