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The ultimate library for data scientist to scrape data from https://www.lefaso.net

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lefaso-net-scraper

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Description

lefaso-net-scraper is a robust and versatile Python library designed to efficiently extract articles from the popular online news source in Burkina Faso, www.lefaso.net. This powerful scraping tool allows users to effortlessly collect article content and user comments on lefaso.net.

Important

This scraper, like other scrapers, is based on the structure of the target website. Changes to the website's structure can affect the scraper. We use automated workflows to detect these issues frequently, but we cannot catch all of them. Please report any issues you encounter and use the latest version.

JSON/dictionary Fields

Field Description
article_topic Category or subject of the article.
article_title The main headline or title of the article.
article_published_date Date when the article was published.
article_origin Source or platform where the article was published.
article_url Web link to the article.
article_content Full text or body of the article.
article_comments Feedback or responses from readers.

Installation

  • Using pip
pip install --upgrade  lefaso-net-scraper
  • Using poetry
poetry add lefaso-net-scraper
poetry update lefaso-net-scraper  # to update the package

Usage

# coding: utf-8

from lefaso_net_scraper import LefasoNetScraper

section_url = 'https://lefaso.net/spip.php?rubrique473'
scraper = LefasoNetScraper(section_url)
data = scraper.run()
  • Settings Pagination range
# coding: utf-8

from lefaso_net_scraper import LefasoNetScraper

section_url = 'https://lefaso.net/spip.php?rubrique473'
scraper = LefasoNetScraper(section_url)
scraper.set_pagination_range(start=20, stop=100)
data = scraper.run()
  • Save data to csv
# coding: utf-8

from lefaso_net_scraper import LefasoNetScraper
import pandas as pd

section_url = 'https://lefaso.net/spip.php?rubrique473'
scraper = LefasoNetScraper(section_url)
data = scraper.run()
df = pd.DataFrame.from_records(data)
df.to_csv('path/to/df.csv')

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