python 'x days ago' to datetime

Question

I have strings that show a date in the following format:

x minutes/hours/days/months/years ago

I need to parse that to a datetime using pyt

Answer 1

Easiest way is to use dateparser:

import dateparser
date_ago="4 months ago" 
date=dateparser.parse(date).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
date

Output:

'2020-01-08'