News crawling & web scraping - Beginner Tutorial for Python and the command-line

Published: 02 March 2021
on channel: Trafilatura Web Scraping
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Learn how to use web feeds to collect news articles and scrape relevant text elements: Go straight from a news or blog homepage to a fully processed document collection.

This introductory level tutorial shows how the web #crawling and #scraping functions are run in Python and on the shell: ATOM/RSS feed discovery, link filtering and main text extraction.

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Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction: the Trafilatura library
1:06 Retrieval and processing of web pages
2:16 Extracting links from ATOM and RSS feeds
4:02 URL filtering with list comprehensions
4:50 Find ATOM/RSS feeds
5:10 Batch processing of selected links
6:38 Command-line processing (e.g. shell scripts, cron jobs etc.)
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Trafilatura is a freely available scraping tool which seamlessly downloads, parses, and scrapes web page data while preserving parts of the text formatting and page structure. It features parallel online and offline processing, robust and efficient extraction, link discovery in feeds and sitemaps, as well as language detection.
The output can be converted to different formats: TXT, CSV, JSON, XML and XML-TEI.

▶️ More information
Documentation: https://trafilatura.readthedocs.org
Blog posts: https://adrien.barbaresi.eu/blog/tag/...
Code: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura

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