Scraping news articles from Quartz

Using Python to get news articles from a web page (Quartz Africa).

Tools Used

• BeautifulSoup 4 (bs4) - installation instructions @ https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/
• Requests (requests) - installation instructions @ http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/
• Pandas (pandas) - installation instructions @ https://pandas.pydata.org/
• Jupyter Notebook

Steps

1. Inspect page (right-click on page, select "Inspect" - for Windows)
2. Open page link with requests
3. Parse page content with BeautifulSoup
4. Extract info from HTML components in parsed page
5. Save as a data frame

Article

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