pyppeteer VS selectolax

Compare pyppeteer vs selectolax and see what are their differences.

pyppeteer

Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer) (by pyppeteer)

selectolax

Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors). (by rushter)
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pyppeteer selectolax
17 6
3,393 959
2.3% -
5.6 7.7
13 days ago about 1 month ago
Python Cython
MIT License MIT License
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pyppeteer

Posts with mentions or reviews of pyppeteer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.

selectolax

Posts with mentions or reviews of selectolax. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pyppeteer and selectolax you can also consider the following projects:

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome

lxml - The lxml XML toolkit for Python

Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.

lexbor - Lexbor is development of an open source HTML Renderer library. https://lexbor.com

Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.

html5lib - Standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments in Python

selenium-python-helium - Lighter web automation for Python [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium]

pyquery - A jquery-like library for python

playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.

gazpacho - 🥫 The simple, fast, and modern web scraping library

requests - A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

bleach - Bleach is an allowed-list-based HTML sanitizing library that escapes or strips markup and attributes