python-news-headlines-scraper

News Headlines Web Scraper

Overview

This project is a simple Python web scraper that extracts news headlines from a public news website and stores them in a text file.

Features

• Sends HTTP GET requests
• Parses HTML using BeautifulSoup
• Extracts news headlines
• Saves headlines to a text file
• Simple and beginner-friendly

Technologies Used

• Python 3
• Requests
• BeautifulSoup4

Files

news_scraper.py
headlines.txt
README.md

Installation

Install required packages:

pip install requests beautifulsoup4

How to Run

python news_scraper.py

Output

The scraped headlines are stored in:

headlines.txt

Learning Outcomes

• HTTP Requests
• Web Scraping
• HTML Parsing
• File Handling

Author

Pratik Tawal