Daily News Emailer

The Project

This project automatically scrapes many news websites. It then compiles the top 5 headlines from each one into an email and sends it to you at the click of a button.

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Team Comments

I made this project because of my dad. He reads the news a lot, but I noticed that he had to switch between many different websites to see headlines he liked. I often saw that he couldn't look at news on the go because of how complicated and how spread out everything is.

One difficulty I found was that each website had their own code structure, which made it very hard to web scrape. I had to manually go to each one and inspect its code to figure out how to scrape it. The solution was to take a step back and look at the parts that are similar across the websites.

Next time, I will make the project more expandable. Currently, there are a lot of hardcoded things such as the number of headlines as well as the news websites themselves. If I made it more expandable, it would be easy to add more headlines in the future. Also, its an important coding convention.