Python web Scraping library

– Beautiful Soup is a popular Python library for parsing HTML and XML documents – Great for extracting data from complex websites

Beautiful Soup

– Scrapy is a powerful framework for large-scale web scraping projects – Designed for efficiency and scalability

Scrapy

– Requests is a simple yet effective library for making HTTP requests – Used in conjunction with other libraries for web scraping

Requests

– Selenium is primarily a browser automation tool, but it can be used for web scraping dynamic content – Useful for handling JavaScript-heavy websites

Selenium

Python's built-in urllib library provides functionalities for opening URLs, reading their contents, and handling URL encoding.

Urllib

– Lxml is a high-performance Python library for processing XML and HTML – It's known for its speed and efficiency

Lxml

It depends on: – Complexity of the website – Amount of data to extract – Desired output format

Choosing the Right Library