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This tutorial shows how to scrap Google news on schedule. We use Python for the demonstration purpose.

To start, open workspace terminal and install Python package GNews

pip install gnews

Create python script

nano scraper.py

Paste the following code snippet. This is scrapper, that will output results to a file

from gnews import GNews
import json

google_news = GNews()
usa_news = google_news.get_news('USA')
with open('usa_news.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(usa_news, f)

Save the file with Ctrl+s and return to the terminal with Ctrl+x.

Execute the script

python3 scraper.py

Navigate to Quickstart and Open file browser. View and download the output file

Filebrowser

Schedule daily executions with Cronicle

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