Python Web Scraping - Should I use Selenium, Beautiful Soup or Scrapy? [2020]
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Published 2020-02-29
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All Comments (21)
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Beautiful Soup + User Friendly + Easy to Learn & Master - Requires Dependencies - Inefficient Scrapy + Efficient + Portability - Not User Friendly Selenium + Versatile + Works well with Javascript - Not Meant to be a Web Scraper - Inefficient
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Wow, the quality of the video and the editing is outstanding.
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Great tutorial, thanks for the insight, you saved me a lot of reading ;)
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Great job on this video. I love how precise it is.
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Thank you for video! I'm going to check out your web scraping tutorials now!
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Love this quick video summary. content is perfect and I got exactly what I came for. Some tiny constructive feedback on the delivery would be to speak about them in the same order throughout. 0:39 - Selenium, BS, Scrapy main content - BS, Selenium, Scrapy (best order in my opinion) summary (4:34) - BS, Scrapy, Selenium Keep up the great work!
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Appreciate this video man. Lots of stuff clarified.
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Thank you! That was very helpful!
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nice content
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Thank you for making this video! I'm glad I watched this first before starting to build a scraper.
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This video is so well done!
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Hey, did you use Adobe After Effects or some other tool in the starting of video where you were elaborating the agenda of this video?
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what do you use for your video animations and graphics?
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Which elements scrapy can fetch??? Like beautiful soup can extract HTML and XML. I have switched to beautiful soup.
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For my use case using Selenium is perfect because I hate dealing with pesky buttons on dynamic webpage.
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Great video! Love how it's concise and to the point. Quick question, can Scrapy be used for scraping sites that use Javascript for dynamic loading too? Or is Selenium the only choice for such a scenario?
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Let us know what topic we should cover next!
