Basic Web Scraper with Beautiful Soup

Python web scraper using Beautiful Soup to extract news headlines from a website.

Overview

This project is a basic web scraper that extracts news headlines from a specified website. It demonstrates how to use Beautiful Soup and the "requests" library to scrape data from web pages. You can customize this code to scrape various types of data from different websites.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Before running the code, make sure you have Python and the required libraries installed. You can install the necessary libraries using pip:

Running the Scraper

1. Clone the repository or download the script.

2. Replace the website_url variable with the URL of the website you want to scrape.

3. Run the script:

Features

• Fetches and parses HTML content from a specified URL.
• Extracts news headlines using Beautiful Soup.
• Prints the extracted headlines.

Usage

You can customize this code for your web scraping needs by modifying the URL, HTML parsing, and data extraction methods. Ensure you have the necessary permissions and follow website terms and conditions when scraping data.

Contributing

Contributions and improvements are welcome! Feel free to open issues and pull requests.

Acknowledgments

• Beautiful Soup Documentation
• Requests Library Documentation