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news_scraping.py
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from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
class NewsScraper:
''' gets news headlines and links '''
def __init__(self):
''' start '''
#self.get_yahoo_news()
pass
def get_yahoo_news(self, ticker='AAPL'):
''' goes on the yahoo website and returns a list of tuples with news
headlines and their links '''
n = 0
while n < 10:
n += 1
url = 'https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/' + ticker + '/news?p=' + ticker
html = urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')
articles = []
children = soup.find('ul', {'class' : 'Mb(0) Ov(h) P(0) Wow(bw)'})
for child in children:
x = child.find('h3', {'class' : 'Mb(5px)'})
if x != None:
sublink = x.find('a')['href']
link = 'http://finance.yahoo.com' + sublink
title = x.find('a').get_text()
articles.append((title, link))
print(articles)
if articles != []:
break
return articles
def get_yahoo_press_releases(self, ticker='AAPL'):
''' goes on the yahoo website and returns a list of tuples with news
headlines and their links '''
n = 0
while n < 10:
n += 1
url = 'http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/' + ticker + '/press-releases?p=' + ticker
html = urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')
articles = []
children = soup.find('ul', {'class' : 'Mb(0) Ov(h) P(0) Wow(bw)'})
for child in children:
x = child.find('h3', {'class' : 'Mb(5px)'})
if x != None:
link = 'https://finance.yahoo.com' + x.find('a')['href']
title = x.find('a').get_text()
articles.append((title, link))
print(articles)
if articles != []:
break
return articles
NewsScraper()