GitHub - akovacs/HackerNewsScraper: Work sample which scrapes articles from the front page of Hacker News and outputs an html file

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Work sample which scrapes articles from the front page of Hacker News and outputs an html file

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Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
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INSTALL.txt		INSTALL.txt
README.txt		README.txt
markup.py		markup.py
requirements.txt		requirements.txt
scraper.py		scraper.py
table.html		table.html

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Work sample demonstrating a webscraper which reads the frontpage of news.ycombinator.com and outputs an HTML table containing:

1. Rank
2. Title
3. Link
4. Points
5. Submitter

Written in Python 2.7, execute using:
pip install -r requirements.txt
python2 scraper.py