📰✨ Advanced Interactive News Headlines Web Scraper 🚀

Welcome to the ultimate news scraping toolkit!
This project empowers you to collect, analyze, and interact with the latest headlines from top news sources—automatically and intelligently.

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🌟 Features & Highlights

• 🔗 Multi-Source Scraping: BBC, CNN, Reuters, RSS feeds, and easily extensible to more!
• ⏰ Scheduling & Automation: Auto-scrape on your preferred interval—never miss breaking news!
• 📧 Email & Push Notifications: Get fresh headlines delivered right to your inbox or device.
• 💻 Interactive Desktop GUI: User-friendly Tkinter interface for non-coders.
• 🌐 Web Dashboard: Beautiful Flask web portal for browsing, searching & exporting headlines.
• 🗃️ Database Storage: Save and search all your headlines with SQLite.
• 🕵️ Duplicate Detection: Only get fresh, unique stories—no repeats.
• 🔍 Keyword Filtering: Instantly find stories that matter to you.
• 📝 Headline Summarization & Topic Tagging: AI-powered summaries and auto-categorization.
• 🛡️ Proxy & User-Agent Rotation: Scrape safely, avoid bans.
• 🕸️ Selenium for Dynamic Content: Scrape even JavaScript-heavy sites!
• 📡 RSS Feed Scraping: Fast and reliable headline scraping via RSS.
• 🔌 REST API Mode: Serve headlines to other apps or your own bots!
• 🧠 Advanced NLP: Sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and more (spaCy, transformers).
• 📋 Export Options: Save to TXT, CSV, JSON, or share via email.
• 📝 Detailed Logging & Error Reports: Track every scrape and every error.

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🚦 Quickstart

1. 🛠️ Installation

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/news_scraper.git
cd news_scraper
pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

2. ⚙️ Configuration

• Edit config.yaml to set up your news sources, email, push notifications, and scheduler.

3. 🤖 Run the Scraper

• undefinedCommand-line:

  python main.py --site bbc --keyword "AI" --output ai_headlines.json --format json
  

• undefinedScheduled Mode:

  python main.py --schedule
  

• undefinedDesktop GUI:

  python -m gui.app
  

• undefinedWeb Dashboard:

  python -m web.dashboard
  

• undefinedAPI Server:

  python -m api.server
  

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🕹️ Command-Line Usage

python main.py --help

Option	Description	Example
–site	News source (bbc, cnn, reuters, etc.)	–site cnn
–keyword	Filter by keyword	–keyword “election”
–output	Output filename	–output results.csv
–format	Output format: text, csv, json	–format csv
–max	Max number of headlines	–max 30
–summarize	Summarize headlines (AI)	–summarize
–schedule	Run as scheduled task	–schedule

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👩‍💻 GUI App

• Launch with python -m gui.app
• Pick news sources, set keywords, schedule scrapes, export data—all with a click!

🌐 Web Dashboard

• Launch with python -m web.dashboard
• Browse, search, and export headlines from your browser.

📡 REST API Server

• Launch with python -m api.server
• Fetch headlines with HTTP requests—perfect for bots, integrations, or mobile apps.

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🧑‍🔬 Advanced Features

• 🧠 AI Summarization & Topics: Each headline can be summarized and auto-tagged with topics for deeper insights.
• 🗂️ Database Search: Query your growing news archive by keyword, date, or topic.
• 🤳 Notifications: Set up breaking news alerts via email or push notification.
• 🔄 Dynamic Content Support: Use Selenium for sites that need JavaScript rendering.
• 🕵️‍♂️ Safe Scraping: Rotate proxies and user-agents to stay anonymous.

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🤔 Why Use This Scraper?

• undefinedStay ahead: Automatically track stories about your interests, competitors, or industry trends.
• undefinedResearch smarter: Build your own news dataset for analysis, machine learning, or reporting.
• undefinedNever miss out: Get instant alerts for exactly the news you care about.

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📬 Feedback & Contributions

• Found a bug or have a feature request? Open an issue!
• PRs welcome—let’s build the best news toolkit together!

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🛡️ License

MIT License. Free for personal and commercial use.

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Happy Scraping! ✨