Python/web_programming/crawl_hindustan_times_and_get_top_news.py
2024-10-02 00:15:31 +05:30

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"""
Fetch all the top headlines from Hindustan Times News website with title, link to the news article
and cover image link.
The following format is used while displaying the data
news = {
0: {
"title": <title-of-the-article>,
"link": <link-to-the-news-article>,
"img": <link-to-the-cover-image>
}
}
"""
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
def fetch_ht_news():
header = {
"Accept": "image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,image/svg+xml,image/*,*/*;q=0.8",
"Sec-GPC": "1",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
"sec-ch-ua": '"Not)A;Brand";v="99", "Brave";v="127", "Chromium";v="127"',
"sec-ch-ua-mobile": "?0",
"sec-ch-ua-platform": "Windows",
}
url = "https://www.hindustantimes.com/"
page_request = requests.get(url, headers=header)
data = page_request.content
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html.parser")
news = {}
counter = 0
for divtag in soup.find_all("div", {"class": "timeAgo"}):
if "liveStory" not in divtag["class"]:
head = divtag.find(class_="hdg3")
title = head.get_text()
link = divtag["data-weburl"]
imgtag = divtag.find("img")
try:
img = imgtag["data-src"]
except Exception:
img = imgtag["src"]
news[counter] = {"title": title, "link": link, "img": img}
counter += 1
return news
if __name__ == "__main__":
fetch_ht_news()