selectolax VS xhtml2pdf

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

try this... https://github.com/rushter/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

Judging by your previous comments, you might get what you're looking for from xhtml2pdf. (Don't be put off by the 0.2.7 version number; xhtml2pdf has been in active development for over a decade and is a stable library.) It's generally used as a library in Python projects, but it does have a stand-alone command-line interface, and the library in general is thoroughly documented so you don't need to rely just on reading the code to figure out what's going on.

Here, we will generate a PDF file using an HTML template. We have to keep in mind that xhtml2pdf supports until HTML4. So, first, we have to create an HTML file that will behave as a template for our PDF file.