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🗽 BREAKING NEWS 1.1 - A Political News Python Library 🗽

A Python 2.7 library of custom-made functions that gather breaking news from some of the top political websites on the web. News stories (headlines and urls) and the number of times the story was shared on Facebook are saved to a list.

This library is perfect for building newsletters and story-finding for your blog.

Featured Websites:

Required Python Libraries:

Notes About Web Drivers:

  • Be sure to have Gecko Driver v0.21.0 installed on your computer.
  • Try to have Gecko Driver installed in "/usr/local/bin/geckodriver" or replace lines in code with your custom repo.

PS:

This library was created for educational purposes only. Please don't use it for anything evil or illegal.

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