selectolax VS pyppeteer

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:

selectolax

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

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.

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.

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

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.

using headless browser or browser automation frameworks, such as * selenium or pyppeteer.