Top 3 Python news-crawler Projects

trafilatura

13 2,778 8.7 Python

Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments

Project mention: Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-14

The feature list answers that question pretty well: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura#features
Basically: you could implement all of this on top of BeautifulSoup - polite crawling policies, sitemap and feed parsing, URL de-duplication, parallel processing, download queues, heuristics for extracting just the main article content, metadata extraction, language detection... but it would require writing an enormous amount of extra code.

news-please

1 1,932 7.3 Python

news-please - an integrated web crawler and information extractor for news that just works
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
news-crawler

1 101 0.0 Python

A news crawler for BBC News, Reuters and New York Times.

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