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lefaso-net-scraper

PyPI version

Description

lefaso-net-scraper is a robust and versatile Python library designed to efficiently extract articles from the popular online news source of of Burkina Faso, www.lefaso.net. This powerful scraping tool allows users to effortlessly collect article content and data from Internet users’ comments on lefaso.net.

Important

Our scraper, like other scrapers, is based on the structure of the target website. Changes to the website's structure can affect the scraper. We use automated workflows to detect these issues frequently, but we cannot catch all of them. Please report any issues you encounter and use the latest version.

Data Format

Field Description
article_topic article topic
article_title article title
article_published_date article published date
article_origin article origin
article_url article url
article_content article content
article_comments article comments

Installation

  • With poetry
poetry add lefaso-net-scraper
poetry update lefaso-net-scraper  # to update the package
  • With pip
pip install --upgrade  lefaso-net-scraper

Usage

# coding: utf-8

from lefaso_net_scraper import LefasoNetScraper

section_url = 'https://lefaso.net/spip.php?rubrique473'
scraper = LefasoNetScraper(section_url)
data = scraper.run()
  • Settings Pagination range
# coding: utf-8

from lefaso_net_scraper import LefasoNetScraper

section_url = 'https://lefaso.net/spip.php?rubrique473'
scraper = LefasoNetScraper(section_url)
scraper.set_pagination_range(start=20, stop=100)
data = scraper.run()
  • Save data to csv
# coding: utf-8

from lefaso_net_scraper import LefasoNetScraper
import pandas as pd

section_url = 'https://lefaso.net/spip.php?rubrique473'
scraper = LefasoNetScraper(section_url)
data = scraper.run()
df = pd.DataFrame.from_records(data)
df.to_csv('path/to/df.csv')

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