from newsplease import NewsPlease
import json
i = 1
articles = NewsPlease.from_file('/Users/wyw/Box/6350/Project/URLsplit/URLs260k'+str(i)+'.txt')
# print (article.text)
count = 0
with open ('/Users/wyw/Box/6350/Project/OutputSet/output'+str(i)+'.json', 'w') as outfile:
for url in articles:
if articles[url].text != None and len(articles[url].text) > 10:
count += 1
json.dump(articles[url].__dict__, outfile, default=str, sort_keys=True)
outfile.write('\n')
print (count)
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
This script reads in URLs from a text-file "name" and downloads article information for each of URLs. The results
are stored in JSON-files in a sub-folder. You need to adapt the variables name and basepath in order to use the
script.
"""
import json
import os
from newsplease import NewsPlease
name = "trump-in-saudi-arabia.txt"
basepath = "/Users/felix/Downloads/"
download_dir = basepath + "dir" + name + "/"
os.makedirs(download_dir)
articles = NewsPlease.from_file(basepath + name)
for url in articles:
article = articles[url]
with open(download_dir + article["filename"] + ".json", "w") as outfile:
json.dump(article, outfile, indent=4, sort_keys=True)
