Building a News Aggregator with Python and Beautiful Soup
Introduction
News aggregators are convenient tools for staying updated on the latest news and articles from multiple sources in one place. In this article, we will walk you through the process of building your own news aggregator using Python and Beautiful Soup. This simple yet powerful combination will allow you to extract, parse, and display news articles from various websites.
As a quick note before beginning, I would like to notice that I changed class names on purpose to match this exercise semantic, and because they are often updated on the websites.
Requirements
To follow along with this tutorial, you will need the following:
- Python 3.x installed on your system.
- Beautiful Soup 4 and the Requests library installed. You can install them using pip:
pip install beautifulsoup4 requestsStep 1: Setting Up the Project
First, create a new directory for your project and navigate to it. Here, you can do this with your terminal:
mkdir news_aggregator
cd news_aggregatorNext, create a Python file to write your code. You can create it in your terminal as follow:
