Cyber-Security-News-Scraper

Scrapy-based cyber security news finder

Goal

To keep up to date on the constant barrage of information within the field of cyber security, with a focus on breaches, malware, and exploits.

Use

This web scraper pulls headlines from The Hacker News and Dark Reading, with more to come. In terminal, run the following, where spider_name is the name of the spider. Currently, this includes darkRead, hackNews, and hackNewsMal

scrapy crawl spider-name

Requirements

Anaconda/scrapy install, python 3.7 and above

Future

The additional of several more websites pulling from news sources popular in other countries. This will allow the user to stay up to date globally. Israel, Russia, and China are all key countries in the cyber security world.