Geziyor VS colly

As someone who has scraped millions of items myself, I had success using Geziyor (https://github.com/geziyor/geziyor) built in Go. Shopify sites are especially easy to scrape because they tend to share the same product data formatting and don't hide it behind JS rendering.

Its been 8+ years since i started scraping. I even wrote a popular Go web scraping framework previously: (https://github.com/geziyor/geziyor).

These days, I'm not even using Go for scraping, as the webpage changes makes me crazy, so I moved to Typescript+Playwright. (Crawlee framework is cool, while not strictly necessary).

My favorite stack as of 2023: TypeScript+Playwright+Crawlee(Optional)

SerpApi focuses on scraping search results. That's why we need extra help to scrape individual sites. We'll use GoColly package.

Interesting. Can you compare it to colly? [0]

Last time I looked it was the most popular choice for scraping in Go and I have some projects using it.

Is it similar? Does it have more/less features or is it more suited for a different use case? (Which one?)

[0] https://github.com/gocolly/colly

Sounds cool, but how is this different from Colly: https://github.com/gocolly/colly?

We could write some snippets mixing all these, but the best option in real life is to use a tool with it all, like Scrapy, pyspider, node-crawler (Node.js), or Colly (Go).

Unless you're specifically trying to do it using net/http, I recommend using colly. I've used it in a few scrappers and I love it!

In this blog, we will be covering the basics of web scraping in Go using the Fiber and Colly frameworks. Colly is an open-source web scraping framework written in Go. It provides a simple and flexible API for performing web scraping tasks, making it a popular choice among Go developers. Colly uses Go's concurrency features to efficiently handle multiple requests and extract data from websites. It offers a wide range of customization options, including the ability to set request headers, handle cookies, follow redirects, and more

github.com/gocolly/colly - popular and widely-used library for web scraping in Go. It provides a higher-level API than net/http and makes it easier to extract information from websites. It also provides features such as concurrency, automatic request retries, and support for cookies and sessions.