8 Most Popular Python HTML Web Scraping Packages with Benchmarks

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  1. selectolax

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

    selectolax

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. requests-html

    Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans™

    requests-html

  4. memory_profiler

    Monitor Memory usage of Python code

    memory_profiler

  5. lxml

    The lxml XML toolkit for Python

    lxml

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