Web Scraper

This repository contains a Python web scraping script that extracts data from Hacker News website using BeautifulSoup and requests libraries. It then creates a webpage that displays the results automatically.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

To run the script, you need to have Python installed on your system. You can download Python from the official website: Python.org.

You also need to install the beautifulsoup4 and requests libraries. You can install them via pip:

pip install beautifulsoup4 pip install requests

Usage

Clone the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/UniquePython/Web-Scraper.git

Navigate to the directory:

cd Web-Scraper

Run the script:

python web_scraper.py

The script will extract the specified elements from the webpage and display the results.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you would like to contribute to this project, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

This script was inspired by the need to extract data from web pages for various applications.
Thanks to the developers of BeautifulSoup and requests libraries for providing powerful tools for web scraping.