A small Python script that retrieves headlines from Bloomberg and counts the number of occurrences of a given keyword.

bloomberg_headlines.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2

def get_headlines():
    url = "http://www.bloomberg.com/quickview"
    html = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
    headlines = {}

    for link in soup.find_all('a', class_="q story_link black"):
        headlines.update({link.text:link.get('href')})

    return headlines

def print_headlines():
    headlines = get_headlines()

    for headline in headlines:
        print(headline)

def count_occurrences(keyword):
    headlines = get_headlines()
    per_headline = 0
    total = 0
    
    for headline in headlines:
        per_headline = headline.count(keyword)
        total = total + per_headline
        per_headline = 0

    return total

keyword = raw_input("Enter keyword: ")
print(count_occurrences(keyword))