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7.7 | 5.6 | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
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selectolax
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GitHub – GSA/code-gov: An informative repo for all Code.gov repos
https://github.com/rushter/selectolax#simple-benchmark )
(Apache Nutch is a Java-based web crawler which supports e.g. CommonCrawl (which backs various foundational LLMs)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Nutch#Search_engines_bu... . But extruct extracts more types of metadata and data than Nutch AFAIU: https://github.com/scrapinghub/extruct )
datasette-graphql adds a GraphQL HTTP API to a SQLite database:
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8 Most Popular Python HTML Web Scraping Packages with Benchmarks
selectolax
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The State of Web Scraping in 2021
Lazyweb link: https://github.com/rushter/selectolax
although I don't follow the need to have what appears to be two completely separate HTML parsing C libraries as dependencies; seeing this in the readme for Modest gives me the shivers because lxml has _seen some shit_
> Modest is a fast HTML renderer implemented as a pure C99 library with no outside dependencies.
although its other dep seems much more cognizant about the HTML5 standard, for whatever that's worth: https://github.com/lexbor/lexbor#lexbor
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> It looks like the author of the article just googled some libraries for each language and didn't research the topic
Heh, oh, new to the Internet, are you? :-D
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Pyppeteer Tutorial: The Ultimate Guide to Using Puppeteer with Python
The latest version of Pyppeteer, i.e., 1.0.2, can also be installed by executing pip3 install -U git+https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer@dev on the terminal.
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will requests-html library work as selenium
Last I checked, pyppeteer wasn't a thing anymore, and I haven't tried Playwright but if it has a headless mode, thats what you want so you don't have a browser open.
- What have you automated with python?
- 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.
- How to start Web scraping with python?
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PyAutoGUI with CSS Selector
If you're talking about CSS I reckon you want to click/input things on a website inside your browser. In this case you would use a web driver which can automate a web browser like Chrome or Firefox. Something like Helium, Selenium or pyppeteer.
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The State of Web Scraping in 2021
In my own experience puppeteer is much better/capable than selenium but the problem is that puppeteer requires nodejs. its python-wrapper https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer was not as good as selenium when you like to use python.
Pyppetteer is feature complete and worth noting: https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer
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Scraping data from interative web charts python
For complex pages I usually use Puppeteer (from Google). A Python port is here: https://github.com/pyppeteer/pyppeteer but that's not widely used as the official JavaScript Version.
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Scrape Google Ad Results with Python
using headless browser or browser automation frameworks, such as * selenium or pyppeteer.
What are some alternatives?
Scrapy - Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
lxml - The lxml XML toolkit for Python
playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.
selenium-python-helium - Lighter web automation for Python [Moved to: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium]
requests - A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
lexbor - Lexbor is development of an open source HTML Renderer library. https://lexbor.com
html5lib - Standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments in Python
pyquery - A jquery-like library for python
gazpacho - 🥫 The simple, fast, and modern web scraping library
bleach - Bleach is an allowed-list-based HTML sanitizing library that escapes or strips markup and attributes