MechanicalSoup
A Python library for automating interaction with websites. (by MechanicalSoup)
Scrapely
A pure-python HTML screen-scraping library (by scrapy)
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| MechanicalSoup | Scrapely | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | - | |
| 4,545 | 1,846 | |
| 0.7% | 0.1% | |
| 5.9 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | about 2 years ago | |
| Python | HTML | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
MechanicalSoup
Posts with mentions or reviews of MechanicalSoup.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-07.
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How to scrape a website with Python (Beginner tutorial)
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:
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Alternatives to Selenium?
Try with Mechanicalsoup https://mechanicalsoup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
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What is the best library for website scraping?
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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Python for everyone : Mastering Python The Right Way
MechanicalSoup
Scrapely
Posts with mentions or reviews of Scrapely.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Scrapely yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MechanicalSoup and Scrapely you can also consider the following projects:
Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
requests-html - Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans™
brownant - Brownant is a web data extracting framework.
RoboBrowser
PSpider - 简单易用的Python爬虫框架，QQ交流群：597510560
pyspider - A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python.
Sukhoi - Minimalist and powerful Web Crawler.
feedparser - Parse feeds in Python
portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy
Crawley - Pythonic Crawling / Scraping Framework based on Non Blocking I/O operations.