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How to Scrape Headlines from a News Website Using Beautiful Soup in Python
Scrape headline text from a news website using requests and Beautiful Soup with a CSS selector.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def scrape_headlines(url: str, selector: str) -> list:
"""
Scrape headlines from a news website using Beautiful Soup.
Args:
url: The URL of the news website.
selector: CSS selector for headline elements.
Returns:
List of h…Extract Every Open Graph and Social Media Meta Tag from Web Pages in Python
A Python script that fetches a webpage and extracts all Open Graph, Twitter Card, Facebook, and Article meta tags using the standard library HTML parser.
from html.parser import HTMLParser
import re
from urllib.request import urlopen
from urllib.parse import urlparse
class MetaExtractor(HTMLParser):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.meta_tags = []
def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
if tag == 'meta':
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