Python Web Scraping - Should I use Selenium, Beautiful Soup or Scrapy? [2020]

In this video, you’ll learn the pros and cons of the three Python web scraping frameworks you should know - beautiful soup, selenium, and scrapy. I’ll also give you scenarios of when a certain framework is more effective than the others. Let’s jump in.

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[aabergkvist]

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

[guillaumehoareau]

Wow, the quality of the video and the editing is outstanding.

[bluesdog]

Great tutorial, thanks for the insight, you saved me a lot of reading ;)

[sozno]

Great job on this video. I love how precise it is.

[aydencraig]

Thank you for video! I'm going to check out your web scraping tutorials now!

[airmanfair]

I actually downloaded kite as per your suggestion and am using it now with jupyterlab. It's pretty neat!

[adamblomfield]

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!

[ambarishkapil]

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[homeheart]

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[stanlukash]

Appreciate this video man. Lots of stuff clarified.

[kotarouriderblack]

For my use case using Selenium is perfect because I hate dealing with pesky buttons on dynamic webpage.

[daviyokogawa]

Your video was so easy to understand and help me a lot to know which way to go

[detaineddeveloper]

Thank you for making this video! I'm glad I watched this first before starting to build a scraper.

[AmitTiwari-wfxj]

Mark my word! If you continuously put videos of such great content than you will reach million sub in few years. by the way, I suscribed

[dishydez]

This is great! Thanks a lot. By the way, could you do a guide on helium? It's a wrapper for selenium but easier to use though I can't get it to work for some reason. Would appreciate a guide video/series.

[mikaelmonjour_programming]

asyncio & aiohttp + parser of choice 😘

[saurabhbhambry]

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?

[alihusham]

what do you use for your video animations and graphics?

[KiteHQ]

Let us know what topic we should cover next!

[odhypradhana]

I came looking for copper and found gold

btw great video as always, the edits are really cool~!