Project_14

📰 Project 14 – News Headlines Scraper (BeautifulSoup)

A Python CLI project that scrapes the latest national news headlines from The Hindu using Requests and BeautifulSoup.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Scrapes real-time headlines from The Hindu's national news section.
• 🧹 Automatically cleans and formats headline text.
• 🖥️ Displays headlines in a numbered list for easy reading.
• 🧠 Demonstrates how to find and parse HTML tags with BeautifulSoup.

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📦 Installation & Setup

1. Clone the project

   git clone <your-repo-url>
   cd Project_14_News_Headlines_Scraper

2. Install dependencies

   pip install requests beautifulsoup4

3. Run the script

   python news_scraper.py

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🖥️ Example Output

Fetching latest headlines from The Hindu...

1 . Supreme Court to hear key case on electoral bonds today
2 . PM addresses G20 meeting on climate change
3 . New Parliament session likely to begin next week
4 . Government issues new digital privacy guidelines
5 . Heavy rains predicted in Southern states

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🧠 Key Learnings

• Using requests to fetch HTML content.
• Parsing and navigating DOM elements using BeautifulSoup.
• Extracting text from anchor (<a>) tags.
• Writing a clean and robust CLI script.

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🚀 Possible Improvements

• Include headline URLs for direct reading.
• Scrape multiple sections (e.g., international, sports).
• Export results to JSON or CSV for later use.
• Add desktop notifications for breaking news.

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