Newspaper: Article scraping & curation (Python)

Newspaper: Article scraping & curation (Python)

The newspaper library is a popular Python library used for web scraping and curation of articles. It helps extract and curate articles from a given website or article URL.

Here's a step-by-step guide on how to use the newspaper library:

  1. Installation: First, you need to install the newspaper3k package. You can do this using pip:

    pip install newspaper3k

  2. Basic Usage:

    a. Scraping an Article:

    from newspaper import Article # Specify the article URL url = 'https://example.com/some-news-article' # Create an Article object article = Article(url) # Download and parse the article article.download() article.parse() # Print the article's title and text print(article.title) print(article.text)

    b. Extracting Additional Information:

    # Print the article's authors print(article.authors) # Print the article's publishing date print(article.publish_date) # Print the top image of the article print(article.top_image) # Print all the images within the article print(article.images)

    c. Natural Language Processing (NLP):

    # Apply NLP on the article article.nlp() # Print the article's summary print(article.summary) # Print the article's keywords print(article.keywords)

  3. Scraping a Newspaper:

    If you wish to extract articles from an entire website or newspaper, you can do so with the following:

    from newspaper import build # Specify the newspaper's main URL paper_url = 'https://example-news-website.com' # Create a newspaper object newspaper = build(paper_url) # Print the names of all the categories in the newspaper for category in newspaper.category_urls(): print(category) # Extract and print titles of all articles in the newspaper for article in newspaper.articles: print(article.title)

  4. Language Support:

    newspaper supports various languages. You can specify the language when creating the Article object:

    article = Article(url, language='en') # 'en' for English

Remember that while newspaper is a powerful tool for web scraping, always ensure you're respecting the website's robots.txt and terms of service. Additionally, heavy scraping can cause IP bans, so use the library responsibly.

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