selectolax vs pyquery

selectolax

Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines (fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors). (by rushter)

#HTML Manipulation #Python #Html5 #CSS #modest-engine #web-scraping #Parser

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pyquery

A jquery-like library for python (by gawel)

#HTML Manipulation #Python #Python3 #jQuery #Lxml #CSS

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pyquery.rtfd.org

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selectolax		pyquery
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6	Mentions	0
871	Stars	2,229
-	Growth	-
7.0	Activity	0.0
2 months ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Cython	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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selectolax

Posts with mentions or reviews of selectolax. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-09.

GitHub – GSA/code-gov: An informative repo for all Code.gov repos
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Sep 2023

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:
8 Most Popular Python HTML Web Scraping Packages with Benchmarks
4 projects | dev.to | 1 Feb 2023

selectolax
The State of Web Scraping in 2021
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 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