ML1_Task2

Medium Article Scraper

This Python script scrapes the contents of a Medium article given its URL and saves the extracted text in a .txt file. The script extracts all the paragraphs from the HTML page of the article and stores the content in a directory called scraped_articles. It uses beautiful soup library that scapes text from the webpage with the help of an html parser.

Requirements

• Python 3.9
• Libraries:
  • requests
  • BeautifulSoup (from the bs4 package)

To install the necessary libraries, run:

pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4

When prompted to input enter the following medium article url:

https://medium.com/@subashgandyer/papa-what-is-a-neural-network-c5e5cc427c7