lassie vs Goose3

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lassie		Goose3
	Project
1	Mentions	2
594	Stars	762
-	Growth	1.6%
0.0	Activity	6.6
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
HTML	Language	HTML
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

lassie

Posts with mentions or reviews of lassie. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Looking for help with a social media API standardization application
1 project | /r/DataHoarder | 12 Jun 2022

Something similar https://github.com/michaelhelmick/lassie

Goose3

Posts with mentions or reviews of Goose3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-18.

Article Extraction Library for Scraping Text Data (Python)
1 project | /r/datascience | 9 Oct 2022

Goose3 is what I use to scrape financial articles for real-time financial news analysis. It's very good. https://github.com/goose3/goose3
Website categorization - use cases, taxonomies, content extraction
2 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2022

There are also many ready made libraries available for content extraction written in python which is more commonly used in data science, e.g. goose3 (https://github.com/goose3/goose3) and newspaper (https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lassie and Goose3 you can also consider the following projects:

TWINT - An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API, allowing you to scrape a user's followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations.

newspaper - newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:

python-goose - Html Content / Article Extractor, web scrapping lib in Python

textract - extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.

trafilatura - Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments

JSONPATH - A query expression for extracting data from JSON.

micawber - a small library for extracting rich content from urls

toapi - Every web site provides APIs.