Tracking hot topics? Want a simple gadget to automatically collect bespoke live news ? AND, Don’t want to spend money to subscribe high quality real-time tracker on line? 🙂
Don’t worry, you can do it yourself!
The Principles and Functions
- Using package BeautifulSoup to make web calls and analyse html files
- Configurable sites for your news sites
- Automatically read live news’ titles and formated into csv files for further machine learning practices
How it works
- Extract both source codes into the same folder
2. Open source code from the extract path
3.Run the source code and follow the instructions on screen, i.e. typing in the search keyword and searching lag
4. Once the application is running, csv files will be automatically generated and saved in the same folder! 🙂
5. You know you can configure the websites to read news! Simply append the news_source.csv file by adding news website and the URL patterns (the URL partial to identify an article), examples as below:
The Source Code
The Professional Version!
Get in contact if you need to have a hard core professional version, which:
- Is pre-configured and can scan major news sites globally
- Plugged with dashboards built byPower BI
- Machine learning algorithms based on the csv results, i.e. NLP and sentiment analysis