MechanicalSoup VS feedparser

MechanicalSoup is a Python library for web scraping that combines the simplicity of Requests with the convenience of BeautifulSoup. It's particularly useful for interacting with web forms, like login pages. Here's a basic example to illustrate how you can use MechanicalSoup for web scraping:

Try with Mechanicalsoup https://mechanicalsoup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

You should try MechanicalSoup it uses Beautifulsoup but provides a simpler API using its StatefulBrowser filling forms and doing some other stuff is easier than just directly using requests and Beautifulsoup.

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There is JSON Feed¹ already. One of the spec writers is behind micro.blog, which is the first place I saw it(and also one of the few places I've seen it). I don't think it is a bad idea, and it doesn't take all that long to implement it.

I have long hoped it would pick up with the JSON-ify everything crowd, just so I'd never see a non-Atom feed again. We perhaps wouldn't need sooo much of the magic that is wrapped up in packages like feedparser² to deal with all the brokeness of RSS in the wild then.

¹ https://www.jsonfeed.org/

² https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser

What sites did you try? Looked into RSS yet? Many sites have RSS feeds you can use with something like https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser nytimes.com feeds: https://www.nytimes.com/rss

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You can explore FeedParser too

feedparser is a python package receiving and parsing RSS/Atom newsfeeds. The maintainer is active but really need much more support.

Lo más sencillo que conozco para monitorizar canales de YouTube son los feeds RSS que tiene cada canal. El formato es https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=[CHANNEL_ID]. Si no conoces RSS, echa un vistazo en la wiki. Para leer RSSs en Python tienes feedparser (y seguramente muchas más).