daafane-ilyass / python-news-scraper

Hacker News Article Scraper: Scrape and display top-voted articles from Hacker News.

Hacker News Article Scraper

This project is a Python script that scrapes articles from Hacker News and displays the best articles based on the number of votes. It utilizes the requests library to fetch the HTML content of the web pages and the BeautifulSoup library to parse and extract relevant information from the HTML. The scraped articles are then sorted by the number of votes and displayed using the pprint module.

Dependencies

To run this script, you need to have Python installed.

The project relies on the following Python libraries:

• requests: You can install it by running pip install requests.
• beautifulsoup4: You can install it by running pip install beautifulsoup4.
• pprint: It is a built-in module in Python.

Make sure to install these dependencies before running the script.

Usage

1. Open the Python script file scrape_hacker_news.py in your preferred IDE or text editor.
2. Configure the number of pages you want to scrape by modifying the pages variable.
3. Run the script using the following command:

python scrape_hacker_news.py

4. Enter the number of pages you want to scrape when prompted.
5. The script will scrape the articles, sort them by votes, and display the best articles.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request in this repository.