Python Project: Scrape News Headlines and Save to CSV

Level: Real-World Project

Project Overview 💡

In this project, you’ll build a simple Python script that scrapes the latest news headlines from Al Jazeera’s news page and stores them in a CSV file. You’ll use requests, BeautifulSoup, and pandas—a powerful combo for web scraping and data handling.

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Challenge Yourself! 🚀

Before checking the solution, try writing a script that scrapes headlines from a webpage and saves them into a CSV.

Task:

Write a Python program that:

• Fetches HTML content from a news site

• Parses the page for headline tags

• Cleans and extracts the text

• Saves the headlines to a CSV file

Expected Output: The program should scrape the news headlines from the news website and save them in a CSV file:

The program should also print out a message in the terminal indicating the number of headlines saved (i.e., 14):

Give it a shot! Scroll down when you're ready for the step-by-step guide.

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Spoiler Alert!

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Step-by-Step Guide