If you have been told that you can't use XPATH selectors with BeautifulSoup and Python....Well..You can.I demonstrate how to use xpath selectors when scraping news articles and then display them in terminal shell.I've used Linux and Vim, but this will work equally well with Windows, Mac, and whatever editor you choose.Use these imports and you will be able to copy my code.

You need to do "pip install package-name" if you get a message saying 'module not found'.

import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from lxml import etree

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