diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+# Virtual environment
+venv/
+
+# Python cache files
+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+*.pyo
+*.pyd
+*.pyc
+
+# Jupyter Notebook files
+.ipynb_checkpoints/
+
+# Collected data files (optional, if you don't want to track data files in Git)
+data/
+
+# OS generated files
+.DS_Store
+Thumbs.db
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+beautifulsoup4
+requests