news-please in 2025

[kdenaeem]

Hi, I am trying to use news-please to scrape news across the internet. Any sort of scraping is returning a 403 exception. Is this project still up to date or has it been depreciated ?

[samconley]

I have been able to use it successfully. What source are you scraping from?

[jtonglet]

Hi,

I am facing the same issue, specifically for The New York Times articles. I used the example provided in the README and received a 403 exception. I tried with other sources and did not get an exception.

'''
from newsplease import NewsPlease
article = NewsPlease.from_url('https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/us/politics/cpac-stephen-bannon-reince-priebus.html?hp')
print(article.title)
'''

[samconley]

Some news sites, NYTimes for example, have articles behind a paywall. Perhaps that is the reason it is blocked?