Web Scrape A Political Website Fake News Detection Using Python
The latest hot topic in the news is fake news and many are wondering what data scientists can do to detect it and stymie its viral spread.
Web scraping helps in automating data extraction from websites. In this tutorial, we will build an news website scraper for extracting political news and detect fake news. We will build this simple web scraper using Python and BeautifulSoup and run it in a console.
We will use Python 3 for this News scraper. The code will not run if you are using Python 2.7. To start, you need a computer with Python 3 and PIP installed in it.
Install Packages
Python Requests, to make requests and download the HTML content of the news website. BeautifulSoup python package to extract data.
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