Daily-news-scraper

Ths is a simple web scraper utilizing newspaper3k to scrape news articles and send them via text. Currently, it scrapes 2 sources: Business Daily and Standard media

The Script then sends top 3 headlines with links to the specified mobile_number in the `.env

Prerequisites

This project also uses an .env file to store the API key, username and mobile number Both can be obtained by signing up/logging into Africas Talking An env example is provided for reference.

Step 1

Clone this repo to a suitable location.

git clone https://github.com/KenMwaura1/daily-news-scraper

OR

Download the zip and extract it.

Step 2

Change into the directory.

cd daily-news-scraper

Step 3

Create a virtual environment (venv) to hold all of the required dependecies.Here we use the built-in venv module.

python -m venv env

Activate the virtual environment

source env/bin/activate

Create a virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv

For zsh users

source venv/bin/activate.zsh

For bash users

source venv/bin/activate.bash

For fish users

source venv/bin/activate.fish

Alternatively if you are using pyenv

pyenv virtualenv daily-news-scraper
pyenv activate daily-news-scraper

Step 4

Install the required dependencies:

pip install -r requirements

Step 5

Create .env file and add your credentials as specified.

touch .env

OR

Copy the provided example and edit as required:

cp .env-example env

Step 6

Run the script

python news_scraper.py