news-headlines-scraper

📰 News Headlines Web Scraper

📌 Objective

This project is a simple web scraper that fetches top news headlines from a public news website and saves them into a .txt file using Python.

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🛠️ Tools & Libraries Used

• Python 3.x
• requests – for sending HTTP requests
• BeautifulSoup (bs4) – for parsing HTML content

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🚀 How It Works

1. Sends a GET request to https://www.bbc.com/news
2. Parses the HTML content using BeautifulSoup
3. Extracts all <h2> headline tags
4. Saves the extracted headlines into a text file called headlines.txt

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📁 Files Included

| File | Description | |——|————-| | web_scraper.py | Python script to scrape headlines | | headlines.txt | Output file containing scraped headlines | | README.md | Project explanation and usage guide |

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▶️ How to Run

1. Clone the repository: ```bash git clone https://github.com/your-username/news-headlines-scraper.git cd news-headlines-scraper