Web Scraping and Data Extraction - Real-Time News Extractor

 

Notes:

• Problem Solved: Extracts headlines from news websites in real time.

• Customization Benefits: Filter by topic or sentiment, or push to dashboards.

• Further Adoption: Use for trend analysis, sentiment detection, or alert systems.

Python Code:

import feedparser

def get_news_rss(feed_url):

    feed = feedparser.parse(feed_url)

    return [{'title': entry.title, 'link': entry.link} for entry in feed.entries]

rss_url = "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml"

headlines = get_news_rss(rss_url)

for news in headlines[:5]:

    print(news['title'], "-", news['link'])