If you Guillermin Web scraping on your own, you probably know that the three main Web scrapie, libraries
in Python are beautiful soup, selenium and scrapie, but which one is the best?
Let's find out in this video.
The first library.
We'll see.
It's beautiful soup, beautiful soup can pull data out of each e-mail in XML files in this library is
the best choice for beginners.
This is because beautiful soup is the easiest web scraping library in Python.
Do you only need a few lines of code to scrape a website with beautiful soup?
And it's also easy to set up because you only need to install the requests library in the beautiful
soup library.
And with these you can start scraping a website.
Unfortunately, VideoClip doesn't have support for JavaScript driven websites.
This is a big disadvantage because nowadays many websites run JavaScript.
Also beautiful soup is inefficient and it has some dependencies that make it complicated to transfer
a code between projects.
Next, we have selenium.
Selenium wasn't actually designed for web scraping.
In fact, selenium is a Web driver designed to render Web pages for test automation of Web applications.
This makes selenium great for web scraping because many websites rely on JavaScript to create dynamic
content on the page.
So we can say that selenium is one of the best libraries for scraping JavaScript driven websites.
Another advantage of selenium is that is easier to learn than the scrapie.
Unfortunately, selenium is a slow web.
Scraping with selenium is a slower than HTP request to the web browser because all the scripts present
on the Web page will be executed.
However, if it isn't our top priority, selenium will be a good option.
Finally, we have a scrapie.
A Scrapie is a website Crippin framework built especially for web scraping and written entirely in Python.
This is without a doubt the most complete web scraping tool in Python.
Unfortunately, a scrapie is harder to learn than selenium or very forsook.
That said, one of the biggest advantages of a scrapie is the speed, since it's a synchronous is is
partners don't have to wait to make requests one at a time, but it can make requests in parallel.
This increases efficiency, which makes it scrapie memory and CPU efficient compared to the previous
web scraping tools.
Also, scrapie is the most complete framework in Python.
You can easily store data in databases, create crullers and do more with scrapie.
So which one is the best?
I will say every web scraping tool satisfies a specific need.
For example, beautiful soup will be great for beginners.
Selenia will be good for small projects that need to scrape JavaScript driven websites, while scrapie
will be great for large projects where speed is priority.
And the TYT in this video to learn the differences between Biddeford Soup, selenium and scrapie, choose
the web scraping tool that fits better.
The website you wish to scrape.