Python web
S
craping 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
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Requests
– Selenium is primarily a browser automation tool, but it can be used for web scraping dynamic content
– Useful for handling JavaScript-heavy websites
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Selenium
Python's built-in urllib library provides functionalities for opening URLs, reading their contents, and handling URL encoding.
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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