Scrape wap.postimees.ee articles [outdated]

Important: Postimees have retired their WAP site so this piece of code no longer works.

Article scraper for the Estonian news site Postimees.

How it works

On wap.postimees.ee, articles are exposed in a very easily parseable format, and can be queried by changing article ID in the URL. Example: wap.postimees.ee/?wid=3190591.

Usage

See example in scrape_articles_csv.py.

Dependencies

• lxml
• requests