News Article Scraping: RSS Feeds vs HTML Scraping in 2026

Media monitoring, sentiment analysis, and content aggregation all depend on reliable news data extraction. In 2026, you have two main approaches: RSS feeds and HTML scraping. Each has trade-offs. Let's build both and compare. RSS Feeds: The Clean Approach RSS feeds provide structured, machine-readable news data. Most major publications still offer them. import feedparser from datetime import datetime from dataclasses import dataclass , asdict from typing import List , Optional import json @dataclass class NewsArticle : title : str url : str source : str published : str summary : Optional [ str ] author : Optional [ str ] categories : List [ str ] def parse_rss_feed ( feed_url , source_name ): """ Parse an RSS feed and extract articles. """ feed = feedparser . parse ( feed_url ) articles = [] for entry in feed . entries : articles . append ( NewsArticle ( title = entry . get ( " title " , "" ), url = entry . get ( " link " , "" ), source = source_name , published = entry . get ( " publi