LinkScraper

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import re
import urllib2
import json
import csv

csvreader = csv.reader(open('narcoBlogLinks.csv', 'rb'), delimiter=',')
csv = list(csvreader)

with open('data.json', 'w') as outfile:
  for i in range(1, len(csv)):
		url = csv[i][2]
		page = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
		soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
		title = soup.find(['h2']).contents[0]
		date = soup.find(attrs={"class": "date"}).contents[0]
		text = ''
		for node in soup.findAll('p'):
			text += ''.join(node.findAll(text=True))
		data = [url, title, date, text]
		data = {
			"url": url,
			"title": title,
			"date": date,
			"text": text
		}
		print data['date'] #prints with correct encoding.
		json.dump(data, outfile) #prints with wrong encoding.