We wanted to gather large amounts of news articles to train out network so that it could distinguish real news from fake news.

There are few programming languages/frameworks that can compete with the resources available for Python users. Some are so well made and feature rich that with an interface, could work as standalone products. I haven’t really worked very much with Python before, and never realized how many great libraries that are available for Python users. Please do read through to understand how the code works, but make sure to also have a look at the source code afterwards. Note: The code repository contains improvements that are not inlucded in this tutorial. I was surprised of how easy this was to implement using a really nice Python library called Newspaper.

I just recently joined an AI hackathon where we took on the challenging task of trying to recognize fake news.Įarly on I worked on automatically scraping news articles from various different news sites.

Automatic news scraping with Python, Newspaper and Feedparser

News feeds websites