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utls
Fork of the Go standard TLS library, providing low-level access to the ClientHello for mimicry purposes.
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nokolexbor
High-performance HTML5 parser for Ruby based on Lexbor, with support for both CSS selectors and XPath.
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html5lib
Standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments in Python
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selma
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Hence, a higher number means a better selectolax alternative or higher similarity.
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Nokolexbor: Drop-in replacement for Nokogiri. 5.2x faster at parsing HTML
Lexbor can also be used from Python: https://github.com/rushter/selectolax
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Lexbor – an open source HTML Renderer library
We been using with https://github.com/rushter/selectolax as an faster alternative to BeautifulSoup with the html5lib, because many malformed webpages in the wild don´t work with lxml.
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GitHub – GSA/code-gov: An informative repo for all Code.gov repos
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:
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8 Most Popular Python HTML Web Scraping Packages with Benchmarks
selectolax
- High performance code in Python
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Web Scraping with Python: Everything you need to know to get started (2022)
try this... https://github.com/rushter/selectolax
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The State of Web Scraping in 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
- Show HN: Fast HTML5 parser for Python with multiple backends
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rushter/selectolax is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of selectolax is Cython.
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