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13,553 | 2,744 | |
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about 1 month ago | about 2 months ago | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
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requests-html
- 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.
plumbum
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Diagram as Code
if you liked that, you'll love Plumbum[1] :)
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Top python libraries/ frameworks that you suggest every one
plumbum
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Declarative command line parser library [Heated Arguments]
I wonder if you included plumbum in your comparison. For some reason, my long time favorite module for this (and more) always gets overlooked.
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NOT-fuzzy line pickers
You'll still have to juggle the input, but when using Python, plumbum offers a solid function for this: choose
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Pyshell, A Linux Subprocess Module for Python
It's kinda a nice thing. And the few people that need something like this are already using https://xon.sh/ or https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/ or https://ipython.org/ . You can have a look at these projects though. See what works and doesn't to guide the goals of your own project.
What are some alternatives?
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]
Python Fire - Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.
click - Python composable command line interface toolkit
feedparser - Parse feeds in Python
RoboBrowser
asynccli - A CLI framework based on asyncio
pyspider - A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python.
escape - Simple Terminal Styling for Python
httpx - A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋
asciimatics - A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations