scrapingant-client-python VS trafilatura

Hello. In order to our previous conversation: We've created a python client library for our API: https://github.com/ScrapingAnt/scrapingant-client-python So you can check it out. Scrapy plugin is still under development. I'll keep you posted. Thanks for the interest :-)

The feature list answers that question pretty well: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura#features

Basically: you could implement all of this on top of BeautifulSoup - polite crawling policies, sitemap and feed parsing, URL de-duplication, parallel processing, download queues, heuristics for extracting just the main article content, metadata extraction, language detection... but it would require writing an enormous amount of extra code.

The WebScraper tool uses Trafilatura [1] to scrape and parse HTML—nothing too fancy. "Scraping" a React site would require a totally different approach, probably something more akin to Adept's ACT-1 [2].

I run a local chat app built with Griptape and I use it to give me summaries of web pages or answer specific questions all the time :)

1. https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/

I've been playing with Trafilatura lately, and it's very good. There are a few very thorough comparisons to other projects and it really shines. It doesn't do anything headless from what I can tell, but it doesn't have to do the scraping itself. Maybe an option could be to use Playwright to scrape, then Trafilatura to parse. Food for thought.

Cool! If you care to explain me further... :) ... I tried parsing a page using: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura, json stringify it and passing it to https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/embeddings/create. How do I use the response as an input later? <3

I want to test how easy it is to install a package plus special extra dependencies to run a certain script in that package: https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura