Washington Post scraper
Project gathers the latest news headlines, descriptions, and links from The Washington Post website within the past 24 hours and saves them into a JSON file. The JSON file format includes the title of the news article, its description, and a direct link to the full article.
Features
- Web Scraping: The scraper utilizes BeautifulSoup and requests libraries to fetch the latest headlines and article details from The Washington Post’s “Latest Headlines” page.
- Data Extraction: It extracts key information such as the news headline, description, and article link from the HTML structure of the webpage.
- JSON Serialization: Extracted data is serialized into a JSON file format for easy storage, retrieval, and further processing.
- Automated Updates: The script can be scheduled to run periodically to keep the JSON file updated with the latest news from The Washington Post.
How to Use
To use the project, simply run the provided Python script. It will automatically scrape the latest news headlines from The Washington Post’s website and save them into a JSON file named “latest_news.json”. You can then access the JSON file to view the collected news articles and their details.
Contributing
Contributions and improvements are welcome! If you have any suggestions for enhancing the functionality or optimizing the code, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request on the project’s GitHub repository.