A Python-based web scraper using Playwright to extract and clean Amharic news articles from websites, designed for building dataset for NLP tasks. It can also be adapted for general-purpose web data collection and text processing pipelines.
# Text_Scraper
A simple Python web scraper built with Playwright to extract and clean Amharic news articles from websites.
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## What it does
- Scrapes web pages using Playwright
- Cleans the page by removing unnecessary content such as tags and metadata
- Extracts only useful Amharic text
- Saves the result into a text file
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## Why this project
I built this to test a text summarization model using real Amharic news articles. It scrapes and cleans web text so I can use it for model evaluation and experiments.
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## Requirements
- Python 3.8+
- Playwright
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## Installation
Clone the repository:
```bash
git clone
github.com
pip install playwright
playwright install