Web Scraping in a professional setting: Selenium vs. BeautifulSoup

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  • webtraversallibrary

    The Web Traversal Library (WTL) is a Python library for abstracting web interactions on top of a base execution layer such as Selenium.

  • If you're looking for something that simplifies the use of selenium, check out Web Traversal Library: https://github.com/klarna-incubator/webtraversallibrary

  • requests-html

    Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans™

  • What I do is try to see if I can use requests_html first before trying selenium. requests_html is usually enough if I dont need to interact with browser widgets or if the authentication isnt too difficult to reverse engineer.

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