bbc_word_cloud.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from wordcloud import WordCloud
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# URL of the BBC News website
url = 'https://www.bbc.com/news'

# Send an HTTP GET request to the website
response = requests.get(url)

# Parse the HTML content of the page using BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')

# Find the elements containing trending headlines
headlines = [headline.get_text().strip() for headline in soup.find_all('h3')]

# Combine the headlines into a single string
headlines_text = ' '.join(headlines)

# Generate the word cloud
wordcloud = WordCloud(width=800, height=400, background_color='white').generate(headlines_text)

# Display the word cloud
plt.figure(figsize=(12, 6))
plt.imshow(wordcloud, interpolation='bilinear')
plt.title('Trending News on BBC News')
plt.axis("off")
plt.show()