Building a News-Scraping Twitter bot in Python

Five Steps to building a bot that scrapes news websites and tweets out the top headlines

Claudia Ng
Python in Plain English
8 min readDec 30, 2020

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Note: This article is purely for educational purposes. We do not encourage you to scrape websites, especially those that may have terms and conditions against such actions.

Nowadays, it is not uncommon for people to get news stories from social media platforms where recommended articles tend to be about similar topics. In the weeks leading up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential…

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