ladybird VS requests-html

You're in luck, Andreas has been hacking on that since a couple of months. They're calling the Linux version of the browser Ladybird: https://github.com/awesomekling/ladybird

LadyBird

Why not ladybird? https://github.com/awesomekling/ladybird

The page loads fine in Ladybird[1] on Arch. It's the browser purpose-built for SerenityOS[2] using a in-house HTTP/JS/TLS engine that hasn't matured to the point of practical usability yet. If I were a site administrator using some kind of weird metric to block a browser, this thing would definitely go on the blacklist.

As for a more common uncommon browser, GNOME Web (WebKit) also works fine.

Whatever is causing you to get blocked, it's not the browser engine you're using. Check your plugins, antivirus, MITM engines, and whatever else messes with your connection. It could also be a simple IP block because of a bad IP neighbour or a shared CGNAT server.

[1]: https://github.com/awesomekling/ladybird

[2]: https://serenityos.org/

Ooh, ooh.

I'm on Ubuntu, and it looks like I need to upgrade to 22.04 before I can experience the build process for myself.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=jammy§ion=all&a...

The repo itself is shockingly tiny: https://github.com/awesomekling/ladybird. Looks like it needs https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity as well. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/... is 100kLoC which is also surprisingly small.

requests-html

Ya, thanks for advice. When using requests_html library, I am trying to lower down the speed using response.html.render(timeout=1000), but it raise Runtime error instead on Google Colab: https://github.com/psf/requests-html/issues/517.

For dynamic js, prefer requests-html with xpath selection.

Example: requests-html which has a rather exhaustive README.md, but their dedicated page is not that helpful, if I remember correctly, and currently the domain is suspended.

When it comes to web scraping, the usual people recommend is beautifulsoup, lxml, or selenium. But I highly recommend people check out requests-html also. Its a library that is a happy medium between ease of use as in beautifulsoup and also good enough to be used for dynamic, javascript data where it would be overkill to use a browser emulator like selenium.

Quite possible. If you look at requests-html source code, it is simply one single python file that acts as a wrapper around a bunch of other packages, like requests, chromium, parse, lxml, etc., plus a couple convenience functions. So it could easily be some sort of bad dependency resolution.

What I do is try to see if I can use requests_html first before trying selenium. requests_html is usually enough if I dont need to interact with browser widgets or if the authentication isnt too difficult to reverse engineer.