stickmanninja / breaking-news-library

A series of web scraping functions that fetch breaking news stories from some of America's top political websites.

🗽 BREAKING NEWS 1.1 - A Political News Python Library 🗽

A Python 2.7 library of custom-made functions that gather breaking news from some of the top political websites on the web. News stories (headlines and urls) and the number of times the story was shared on Facebook are saved to a list.

This library is perfect for building newsletters and story-finding for your blog.

Featured Websites:

• Conservative Tribune
• The Hill
• IJ Review
• Breitbart
• Free Beacon
• Dennis Michael Lynch
• Western Journal
• Judicial Watch
• Daily Caller
• Weasel Zippers
• The Gateway Pundit
• WND
• Daily Wire
• Fox News
• Fox News Insider

Required Python Libraries:

• Facepy 1.0.9
• Requests 2.19.1
• AST 0.0.2
• Beautifulsoup-4 4.6.0
• Six 1.11.0
• Selenium 3.12.0
• Task Threader Module (included)

Notes About Web Drivers:

• Be sure to have Gecko Driver v0.21.0 installed on your computer.
• Try to have Gecko Driver installed in "/usr/local/bin/geckodriver" or replace lines in code with your custom repo.

PS:

This library was created for educational purposes only. Please don't use it for anything evil or illegal.