SadedeGel Scraper

This web scraper is developed to meet the data requirements of SadedeGel library. It scrapes data from news websites and stores them as .txt files. Developed as a part of Açık Kaynak Hackathon Programı 2020.

💬 Where to ask questions

The SadedeGel project is maintained by @globalmaksmum AI team members @dafajon, @askarbozcan, @mccakir and @husnusensoy.

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How it works

• Gets author urls of given news website
• Gets article urls of each author
• Scrapes data from the article and write to a .txt file

Install Scraper

You need sbt to build the project.

$ git clone https://github.com/GlobalMaksimum/sadedegel-scraper.git 
$ cd sadedegel-scraper
$ sbt assembly  

You will get the jar under ./target/scala-[version]/

Example Run

$ nohup java -jar sadedegel-scraper-assembly-0.3.jar "hurriyet" > hurriyet.out &

Check for hurriyet-[dd-MM-yyyy] directory for .txt files.

For Developers

You can add support for additional news sources by extending NewsWebsite Trait.

Example:

import com.sadedegel.ScraperUtils.getArticles

class HurriyetScraper extends NewsWebsite {
  val domain = "https://www.hurriyet.com.tr"
  val authorsUrl = "https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/tum-yazarlar/#hurriyetcomtr"
  override def getAuthorUrls(): List[String] = {
    List("https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/ilber-ortayli/"
    )
  }
  override def getArticlesOfAuthors(authorUrls: List[String], domain: String): Unit = {
    getArticles(authorUrls, domain, ".highlighted-box.mb20", writeArticlesToFile, "?p=", "")
  }
  override def writeArticlesToFile(articleUrl: String): Unit = {
    ScraperUtils.writeToFile(articleUrl, List(".article-content.news-text", ".rhd-all-article-detail"),
      "hurriyet")
  }
}