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+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from fastapi import FastAPI
+
+app = FastAPI()
+
+@app.get("/")
+def root():
+    return {"message": "Scraper is ready"}
+
+@app.get("/scrape")
+def scrape():
+    articles = (
+        fetch_techcrunch_articles() + 
+        fetch_producthunt_articles() + 
+        fetch_theverge_articles() + 
+        fetch_avclub_articles()
+    )
+    return { "articles": articles }
+
+#==================================================================================================
+# Article scraper helper
+#==================================================================================================
+# Shared user-agent for all requests
+HEADERS = {
+    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 '
+                  '(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
+}
+
+def scrape_articles(url, source, selector_func):
+    """Generic scraper helper.
+
+    Makes a GET request to the target url and passes the response's text to a selector function.
+    Once the selector function returns the article data, formats the article object with all
+    required properties.
+
+    The selector function uses BeautifulSoup to parse the HTML string and returns the article's
+    headline, link, and content.
+
+    Example usage:
+    articles = scrape_articles('https://site.com', 'site', selector);
+    """
+
+    response = requests.get(url, headers=HEADERS)
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
+
+    articles = selector_func(soup)
+    for article in articles:
+        article['source'] = source
+        if 'content' not in article:
+            article['content'] = ''
+
+    return articles
+
+#==================================================================================================
+# TechCrunch
+#==================================================================================================
+def fetch_techcrunch_articles():
+    def selector(soup):
+        return [
+            {
+                'headline': tag.get_text(strip=True),
+                'link': href,
+                'content': fetch_techcrunch_content(href)
+            }
+            for tag in soup.find_all('a', class_='loop-card__title-link')
+            if (href := tag['href'])
+        ]
+
+    return scrape_articles('https://techcrunch.com', 'techcrunch', selector)
+
+def fetch_techcrunch_content(url):
+    def selector(soup):
+        return [
+            {
+                'content': '\n'.join(
+                    [
+                        tag.get_text(strip=True) 
+                        for tag in soup.find_all('p', class_='wp-block-paragraph')
+                    ]
+                )
+            }
+        ]
+    
+    results = scrape_articles(url, 'techcrunch', selector)
+    return results[0]['content'] if results else ''
+
+#==================================================================================================
+# Product Hunt
+#==================================================================================================
+def fetch_producthunt_articles():
+    def selector(soup):
+        return [
+            {
+                'headline': tag.get_text(strip=True),
+                'link': link,
+                'content': content
+            }
+            for anchor in soup.find_all('a', href=True)
+            if (href := anchor['href']).startswith('/stories/')
+            if (tag := anchor.find('div'))
+            if (link := f'https://www.producthunt.com{href}')
+            if (content := fetch_producthunt_content(link))
+        ]
+
+    return scrape_articles('https://www.producthunt.com/stories', 'producthunt', selector)
+
+def fetch_producthunt_content(url):
+    def selector(soup):
+        tag = soup.find('div', id='story-body')
+        if not tag:
+            return []
+
+        content = tag.get_text(separator='\n', strip=True)
+        return [{'content': content}]
+    
+    results = scrape_articles(url, 'producthunt', selector)
+    return results[0]['content'] if results else ''
+
+#==================================================================================================
+# The Verge
+#==================================================================================================
+def fetch_theverge_articles():
+    target_directories = ('/news/', '/ai-artificial-intelligence/')
+    def selector(soup):
+        return [
+            {
+                'headline': tag.get_text(strip=True),
+                'link': link,
+                'content': content
+            }
+            for tag in soup.find_all('a', href=True)
+            if (href := tag['href']).startswith(target_directories)
+            if (link := f'https://www.theverge.com{href}')
+            if (content := fetch_theverge_content(link))
+        ]
+    
+    return scrape_articles('https://www.theverge.com', 'theverge', selector)
+
+def fetch_theverge_content(url):
+    def selector(soup):
+        tag = soup.find('div', id='zephr-anchor')
+        if not tag:
+            return []
+        
+        content = tag.get_text(separator=' ', strip=True)
+        return [{'content': content}]
+    
+    results = scrape_articles(url, 'theverge', selector)
+    return results[0]['content'] if results else ''
+
+#==================================================================================================
+# The A.V. Club
+#==================================================================================================
+def fetch_avclub_articles():
+    def selector(soup):
+        ul = soup.find('ul', class_='articles')
+        if not ul:
+            return []
+
+        articles = []
+        for li in ul.find_all('li', class_='grid-x'):
+            link_tag = li.find('a', class_='copy-container')
+            title_tag = link_tag.find('b', class_='title') if link_tag else None
+
+            if link_tag and title_tag:
+                articles.append({
+                    'headline': title_tag.get_text(strip=True),
+                    'link': link_tag['href'],
+                    'content': fetch_avclub_content(link_tag['href'])
+                })
+
+        return articles
+    
+    return scrape_articles('https://www.avclub.com', 'avclub', selector)
+
+def fetch_avclub_content(url):
+    def selector(soup):
+        return [
+            {
+                'content': ' '.join(
+                    [
+                        tag.get_text(strip=True)
+                        for tag in soup.find_all('span', style=True)
+                    ]
+                )
+            }
+        ]
+    
+    results = scrape_articles(url, 'avclub', selector)
+    return results[0]['content'] if results else ''