MechanicalSoup
A Python library for automating interaction with websites. (by MechanicalSoup)
Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code (by microsoft)
| MechanicalSoup | Visual Studio Code | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3,163 | |
| 4,775 | 174,287 | |
| 0.4% | 0.9% | |
| 4.6 | 10.0 | |
| 9 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Python | TypeScript | |
| 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 2024-10-29.
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11 best open-source web crawlers and scrapers in 2024
Language: Python | GitHub: 4.7K+ stars | link
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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
Visual Studio Code
Posts with mentions or reviews of Visual Studio Code.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-08.
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How to Create a Node.js Project in VS Code
Install VS Code from the official site.
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**The Complete Beginner's Guide to Git & GitHub for Website Content Editing on macOS**
Download from code.visualstudio.com or:
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AI-Driven Development: Code Smarter with Vue.js, Beginners-Friendly 2025
Cursor: AI-driven code suggestions for VS Code.
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Copilot Chat in VS Code is now open source
I'm not sure I see the problem. The number of merged PR's looks on the high side for a FOSS project.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclo...
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Git & GitHub Collaboration
Download VS Code from the https://code.visualstudio.com/. Install it by following the setup instructions.
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First Day as a Developer:
I installed VS Code from ➡️https://code.visualstudio.com.
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Setting Up Git, Python, WSL, Docker, and GitHub SSH
3.Visual Studio Code (Text Editor) VS Code is lightweight and great for Python/Django development. Where you write and edit your code. it's important cause you Syntax highlighting, auto-complete, and error detection Tools like VS Code improve speed and productivity How Installed It: Downloaded from code.visualstudio.com Or you can install it from microsoft store by typing "Vs Code"
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Show HN: VSCode/Cursor/Windsurf Extensions Might Be Dangerous
Nice work! This has actually been an open feature request since 2018 [0]. I've been wanting something like this for a while.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116
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Setting Up Your Windows Development Environment Edition
3.Vs Code I decided to use (VS Code)as my text editor of choice because it's lightweight, incredibly fast, and very beginner-friendly. It also has a vibrant extension ecosystem, built-in Git support, and seamless integration with tools like Python, Docker, and WSL — making it ideal for both newcomers and experienced developers alike. use this link to download;https://code.visualstudio.com/
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How I set up the tools I needed for my journey in Python/ django
VSCode (my text editor) It had been the easiest to download. Plus it has a lot of extensions hence easy to customise. I downloaded it from: https://code.visualstudio.com/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing MechanicalSoup and Visual Studio Code you can also consider the following projects:
Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
community - Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!
RoboBrowser
identity-obj-proxy - An identity object using ES6 proxies. Useful for mocking webpack imports like CSS Modules.
pyspider - A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python.
KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP