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.

If you are not able to visualise the content until the end, I invite you to take a look here to catch-up!

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Requirements

To follow along with this tutorial, you will need the following:

1. Python 3.x installed on your system.
2. Beautiful Soup 4 and the Requests library installed. You can install them using pip:

pip install beautifulsoup4 requests

Step 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…