Components of Web Scraping

BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup is an amazing parsing library in Python that enables the web scraping from HTML and XML documents.

BeautifulSoup automatically detects encodings and gracefully handles HTML documents even with special characters. We can navigate a parsed document and find what we need which makes it quick and painless to extract the data from the webpages. In this article, we will learn how to build web scrapers using Beautiful Soup in detail

Scrapy

Scrapy is a Python framework for large scale web scraping. It gives you all the tools you need to efficiently extract data from websites, process them as you want, and store them in your preferred structure and format. You can read more about Scrapy here

Selenium

Selenium is another popular tool for automating browsers. It’s primarily used for testing in the industry but is also very handy for web scraping. Check out this amazing article to know more about how web scraping using Selenium works in Python.

Components of Web Scraping

Web Scraping with Python