📰 News Extractor Using CSS Selectors

A Streamlit-based web app that extracts news article content, author name, and published date from popular Indian news websites using BeautifulSoup and CSS selectors.

Supported News Sites

• The Hindu
• Economic Times
• Times of India
• Indian Express

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Tech Stack

• Frontend: Streamlit (for UI)
• Backend: Python, BeautifulSoup
• Web Scraping: requests, bs4
• Deployment: Works locally and deployed on Streamlit Cloud

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Getting Started

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/Gautam413/News-Extractor-Using-CSS-Selectors.git
cd News-Extractor-Using-CSS-Selectors

2. Create and activate virtual environment

# On Windows
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate

# On Linux/macOS
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the App

streamlit run app.py

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News-Extractor-Using-CSS-Selectors/

├── app.py # Streamlit frontend app ├── scraper.py # Web scraping logic for each news site ├── requirements.txt # Python dependencies ├── README.md # Project description └── .gitignore # Files to exclude from version control

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Feedback

Feel free to open an issue .

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.