Web Crawling on News Web Page using Different Frameworks

Authors

  • Harshala Bhoir  Department of Computer Engineering, Shree. L. R. Tiwari College of Engineering, Mira Road(E), Thane, Maharashtra, India
  • K. Jayamalini  Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Shree. L. R. Tiwari College of Engineering, Mira Road(E), Thane, Maharashtra, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT2174120

Keywords:

Scrapy , BeautifulSoup ,Web Crawler , XPath

Abstract

Now a days Internet is widely used by users to find required information. Searching on web for useful information has become more difficult. Web crawler helps to extract the relevant and irrelevant links from the web. Web crawler downloads web pages through the program. This paper implements web crawler with Scrapy and Beautiful Soup python web crawler framework to crawls news on news web sites.Scrapy is a web crawling framework that allow programmer to create spider that define how a certain site or a group of sites will be scraped. It has built-in support for extracting data from HTML sources using XPath expression and CSS expression. BeautifulSoup is a framework that extract data from web pages. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods for navigating, searching and modifying a parse tree. BeautifulSoup automatically convert incoming document to Unicode and outgoing document to UTF-8.Proposed system use BeautifulSoup and scrapy framework to crawls news web sites. This paper also compares scrapy and beautiful Soup4 web crawler frameworks.

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Published

2021-08-30

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Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August-2021

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Research Articles

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Harshala Bhoir, K. Jayamalini, " Web Crawling on News Web Page using Different Frameworks" International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 7, Issue 4, pp.513-519, July-August-2021. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/CSEIT2174120