MechanicalSoup
A Python library for automating interaction with websites. (by MechanicalSoup)
Spyder
Official repository for Spyder - The Scientific Python Development Environment (by spyder-ide)
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4 | 84 | |
4,555 | 8,052 | |
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5.9 | 9.9 | |
4 months ago | 1 day ago | |
Python | Python | |
MIT License | MIT 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
Spyder
Posts with mentions or reviews of Spyder.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-23.
- Spyder – The Scientific Python Development Environment
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I've coded in R for years, but I want to learn Python for machine learning/statistical analysis. Where to start, and which IDE?
IDE-wise, I find Spyder to be the most R-like. If you are comfortable with R Studio, maybe check it out.
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Email proves Microsoft's Activision bid is designed to eliminate Playstation
For anyone else who hadn’t heard of Spyder: https://www.spyder-ide.org/
- R user, trying to learn Python... what´s the Rstudio equivalent?
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The Best Python IDE For Mac Users - Part 1
Spyder
- PYTHON vs OCTAVE for Matlab alternative
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Why does Python look one way on my laptop and completely different in this video i wanted to watch?
Spyder - a popular editor for scientific work, the default option if you get the Anaconda implementation of Python which includes many packages used in science and engineering fields
- Too many people go to college for a hobby instead of for a major.
- Which IDE is your favorite? And which IDE would you recommend for trading
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What is your favorite IDE/Text Editor to use for Python?
I also have a fondness for Spyder, which was my first non-IDLE IDE experience. It is heavily geared toward scientific computing.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MechanicalSoup and Spyder you can also consider the following projects:
Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
RoboBrowser
thonny - Python IDE for beginners
requests-html - Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans™
Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor
pyspider - A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python.
qtconsole - Jupyter Qt Console
feedparser - Parse feeds in Python
jupyter-book - Create beautiful, publication-quality books and documents from computational content.
portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy
jupyterlab-lsp - Coding assistance for JupyterLab (code navigation + hover suggestions + linters + autocompletion + rename) using Language Server Protocol