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Which is best for web scraping beautiful soup /selenium /scrapy !?

Actually i learned selenium and beautiful soup but i don't know scrapy May be suggest some web scraping ideas??!!

26th Aug 2020, 4:56 PM
Umapathi
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It is tough to answer questions like this on determining "best". I like them all and it depends exactly what you're trying to do. I like BeautifulSoup for extracting text, the cool thing about it is you can then pass the text into services like AWS and have the results sent through SMS. I like Selenium for automating tasks through a simulated web browser. Scrapy is a little more robust version of BeautifulSoup allowing for pipelines, feed exports, selectors, etc and I believe Scrapy uses BeautifulSoup as its backbone
26th Aug 2020, 5:22 PM
Steven M
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