requests-html
Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans™ (by psf)
Grab
Web Scraping Framework (by lorien)
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| requests-html | Grab | |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 0 | |
| 13,567 | 2,352 | |
| 0.4% | - | |
| 0.0 | 3.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| 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.
requests-html
Posts with mentions or reviews of requests-html.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-13.
- will requests-html library work as selenium
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8 Most Popular Python HTML Web Scraping Packages with Benchmarks
requests-html
- Note, the first time you ever run the render() method, it will download Chromium into your home directory (e.g. ~/.pyppeteer/). This only happens once.
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Which string to lower case method to you use?
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.
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Top python libraries/ frameworks that you suggest every one
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.
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Web Scraping in a professional setting: Selenium vs. BeautifulSoup
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.
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The best Python libraries
I'm not sure what is left to do, it is essentially a lightweight wrapper that consolidates a bunch of other libraries (like parse, requests, chromium, etc). The whole package is basically one file requests_html.py.
Grab
Posts with mentions or reviews of Grab.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning Grab yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing requests-html and Grab you can also consider the following projects:
Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
MechanicalSoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
requests - A simple, yet elegant HTTP library. [Moved to: https://github.com/psf/requests]
feedparser - Parse feeds in Python
RoboBrowser
pyspider - A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python.
httpx - A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋
Pomp - Screen scraping and web crawling framework