Newspaper Crawler Scripts

Set of scripts for crawling newspaper websites. Please find the available scripts below

Setup

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Todo

[ ] Extract common code into a decorator

Contribute

Scripts for more news websites are welcome. Please save the text scraped in UTF-8 encoding. Please refer to the newspapers list file and pick one to scrape.

Latest Script

crawler-oneindia.py under malayalam has the latest code, you can use this a template for future crawlers.

Directory structure

<newspaper_name>
  title.list --> acts as a index for other directories.
  articles
  -- 2018
  ---- Dec
  ---- May
  -- 2017
  ---- Jun
  ---- Aug
  -- 2016
  ---- Oct
  ---- Jan
  abstracts
  -- 2018
  ---- Dec
  ---- May
  -- 2017
  ---- Jun
  ---- Aug
  -- 2016
  ---- Oct
  ---- Jan  

Available scripts.

Tamil

Site	URL	script
Nakkheeran	http://nakkheeran.in/	tamil/crawler-nakkheeran.py
Dailythanthi	http://dailythanthi.com/	tamil/crawler-dailythanthi.py
Tamil The Hindu	http://tamil.thehindu.com/	tamil/crawler-tamil-hindu.py
Puthiyathalaimurai	http://puthiyathalaimurai.com/	tamil/crawler-puthiyathalaimurai.py
Dinamani	http://dinamani.com/	tamil/crawler-dinamani.py

Malayalam

Site	URL	script
Manorama	http://www.manoramaonline.com/	malayalam/crawler-manorama.py
Asianet News	https://www.asianetnews.com/	malayalam/crawler-asianet.py
One India	https://malayalam.oneindia.com/	malayalam/crawler-oneindia.py

Bengali

Site	URL	script
Ananadabazar	https://www.anandabazar.com	Bengali/crawler-anandabazar.py
Aajkal	https://www.aajkaal.in	Bengali/crawler-aajkal.py

Konkani

Site	URL	script
Konkani Kaniyo	http://konkani-kaniyo-in-nagri.blogspot.com	konkani/crawler-konkani-kaniyo.py

Marathi

Site	URL	script
Lokmat	http://www.lokmat.com/	marathi/crawler-lokmat.py
Maharashtratimes	https://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/	marathi/crawler-maharashtratimes.py
Loksatta	https://www.loksatta.com	marathi/crawler-loksatta.py
ABPmajha	https://abpmajha.abplive.in	marathi/crawler-abpmajha.py