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

[@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

[@man-ham-city]

I hope you scraped this from the video because that looks like an awful lot of work to type out...

[@aabergkvist]

@@man-ham-city actually, I was stuck on a commute iirc and wrote it down to "fortify" the learnings from the video :)

[@kotarouriderblack6118]

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

[@homeheart1276]

Well done, Sir. You just made it into my "0. Top Resources" Bookmark folder...the competition to get in there is insane and your roommates are very few and far between. It's not what you did in this video per se, it is HOW you did it. Concise, clear, to the point, and not made artificially long to improve your KZbin revenue. *Make sure* you are advertising to entrepreneurs and I.T. professionals; we have little time (or patience). Thanks again! Well done.

[@guillaumehoareau1161]

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

[@KiteHQ]

Let us know what topic we should cover next!

[@nghiepcrypto7034]

Pandas and Numpy, working with excel please! I know there are a lot of video content talking about these, but I believe that you can do that better. Thanks!

[@adamblomfield7914]

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!

[@araza554]

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?

[@alihusham1560]

the same Q

[@KapilSharma-co8xq]

Which elements scrapy can fetch??? Like beautiful soup can extract HTML and XML. I have switched to beautiful soup.

[@zone66]

so if i want to scrape a large amount of webpages while also activating javascript, i would need to go with Selenium, event though Scrapy would be crawling much faster (out of the box). Would be great to have some kind of tutorial for using Scrapy together with Selenium. I think those too should get along somehow. I guess the only problem is Scrapy is single-threaded and Selenium would Block when its called in this single-threaded environment multiple times, or something like hat.

[@janpost8598]

Was wondering that as well. Won't mind a steeper learning curve as long as it is both efficient and handles JavaScript

[@airmanfair]

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

[@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?

[@abc.2924]

It can, if you combine it with splash and run it using docker

[@KiteHQ]

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[@allcool27gaming]

This dude looks like his birthday is on May 2nd

[@24mem0]

yoooo facts

[@s.predator536]

Why you said like that🤔 I am curious to know that because my birthday is on may 2nd

[@stephenmandelbaum2027]

Lmao, I don't get it, but funny 😅

[@alihusham1560]

what do you use for your video animations and graphics?

[@stanlukash33]

Appreciate this video man. Lots of stuff clarified.

[@gaurav2979]

What did you chose ? What was clarified to you.?

[@AmitTiwari-wf1xj]

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

[@gaurav2979]

Do you have any idea on skrapping

[@bah0n1]

Is there possible to add some python selenium script backend of our website. If it is not then why and if will then how. I go a website like auto like/auto followers/auto reaction is they use some kind of selenium script

[@Tracks777]

nice content

[@Noname304y2u2]

Thank you! That was very helpful!

[@jackbird5839]

awesome tutorial, thank you for your video. it is very clear and easy. Also as newby in Shopify eCommerce i am using ""e-scraper"" to scrape shopify stores, all product data from my supplier sites and other sources. It helps me a lot. maybe it helps somebody too. Thank you for your input!!!

[@willjohn6807]

Thank you Jack, ESCRAPER helped me a lot. Plus now I know the pros and cons of the three Python web scraping frameworks. Thank you Kite.

[@vskiy26]

Jack, eScraper is an awesome solution! Thank you.

[@bluesdog88]

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

[@detaineddeveloper]

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

[@gaurav2979]

What did u chose ? Scrapy or selenium ?

[@gaurav2979]

As beautiful bla bla seems like for kids

[@ibarix]

ok, i want to scrape a football teams' forms from a js website, the amount of data is not big. i should go with selenium then? tnx

[@SaurabhGupta-ns8gx]

Which can be the best for web scraping?

[@daviyokogawa4237]

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

[@KiteHQ]

Glad we could help, Davi! :)

[@sozno4222]

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

[@nicodemus399]

hi, Have you tried Scrapy Splash? for js pages.

[@luishenriquedavilapossatti5308]

Hi! In my application I need to open a web page, fill a form and then click in a button, then get some data that will be loaded in the page. What would you recommend? Thanks in advance

[@idromano]

This video is so well done!

[@Saywhatohno]

Great video!!! Can you login to a website like you can with selenium? becasue with selenium you can parse through your userid and password and log into salesforce for eaxample and then scrape accordingly. Do any of the other dependencies or python library provides that feauture? btw this is also the reason i like using selenium.

[@GlennMascarenhas]

One could use Helium over Selenium. Helium is built on Selenium but much easier in terms of function calls

[@BookOfMorman]

Great content! Thanks! Quick note, maybe center yourself higher in the frame for the camera. Most people have only a little room from the top of the frame to the top of their head. When you center your head in frame as you did, it kinda just makes you look short. Like you could be 7 feet tall but that centering makes you look like a hobbit! Anyway, keep up the great work!

[@yashhhhraj]

Can we use python requests library with scrapy to make post requests to api? I'm done with web scraper but stuck at api

[@artabra1019]

what is better python scrapings or js scraping

[@willkingsley8454]

Aside from the learning curve, would Scrapy be the best option?

[@ahmadaminfarooq8495]

Yes but only downside is it doesn't allow JS rendering.

[@fabianrodriguez1226]

@@ahmadaminfarooq8495 You could use Scrapy and Splash to render JS

[@shashwatpuri6496]

It definitely is, Scrapy is powerful and sole purpose is scraping and handling huge amounts of data Moreover , middlewares and pipelines allow you to clean the data and store them to database like mongo, sqlite3 ! Moreover, to scrape JavaScript websites, there's good support for Scrapy-splash integration via docker !

[@aydencraig9542]

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

[@Buhassan5656]

I want to scrape amazon.com (for monitor arms) and extract prices and shipping weight of each item. Therefore, (it is required to open the page of each item). So what framework you think suits this situation??

[@PropertyTak]

Yes i can Paid. I'm Freelancer

[@fabianrodriguez1226]

Scrapy would be the best approach although you should use proxies and agents

[@SWIFTzTrigger]

@@fabianrodriguez1226 can you explain what you mean by use proxies and agents?

[@ambarishkapil8004]

HI, Firstly I want to congratulate you on your new youtube channel and hope that it will be as successful as your product. You are putting in great content, and the dev community really appreciates the hard work. As a future video idea, I would like to suggest "Design Patterns". This would cater to python enthusiasts falling in both ends of the spectrum. Thanks, Cheers!

[@draytond]

Summary: Use Scrapy if your data set will be large, else use BeautifulSoup

[@NathanKwadade]

Thanks 🙏 😊

[@NathanKwadade]

I used BeautifulSoup and made me a nice broth of data which I converted to CSV file format. Thx

[@matthiasoberleitner5942]

I just generally use Scrapy. As soon as you know how to set it up its not really a hassle even for small things. If anything's reactive and too hard to fetch, then I use Selenium in my Scrapy framework for those things I need it for

[@informativecontent4778]

Lolx selenium is better

[@Captinofthemudslayer]

bs4 content returned different than page im viewing for example @t. any ideas

[@anilpanwar8710]

@Kite , i want to scrap 1 million records from a website and there are some javascript like some click event require, i know scrapy and selenium, so please tell me which what should i use , scrapy or selenium ?

[@informativecontent4778]

Scrapy

[@nikhildeshpande1247]

I was extracting text from perticular website it is giving response [500] error ?? anyone knows what it is??

[@ajosifoski]

I would add requests and lxml in adition

[@ajosifoski]

Btw, after knowing kite, I cant live without it, python without kite is empty shell, but together are two pearls!

[@aronpaul7544]

When are you going to post new videos on this playlist? It's been a while 😒

[@mikaelmonjour_programming]

asyncio & aiohttp + parser of choice 😘

[@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.

[@imaginzationworld]

Do you charge to create a web scrapper?

[@odhypradhana6556]

I came looking for copper and found gold btw great video as always, the edits are really cool~!

[@prabaharanp2825]

If inspect element not allowed for a page,how could we scrsp

[@paulowiz]

I would like a video to explain more about scrapy , because there are few information on internet

[@KiteHQ]

Thanks for your feedback!

[@informativecontent4778]

Yep

[@AlessandroBottoni]

Excellent video! Kudos!

[@anonymosranger4759]

Amazing Content, New Sub Here!

[@TropicalDev]

Aight bet I’m downloading kite

[@jasp402]

How can I enter a page that has recaptcha2?

[@elyasmoshirpanahi7184]

nice video really informative

[@KiteHQ]

Glad you found it useful!

[@pythonenthusiast9292]

How do we know if the website is using JavaScript or HTML/XML to load contents?

[@willy7968]

Disable javascript from the browser

[@pankajjoshi8292]

Sir what about parseHub ? is parseHub free ?

[@АлександрКотов-ц7л]

Hello, your videos very useful

[@juanroman7130]

I want to just save image url to hyper link to it

[@anttonalamettala5367]

nice content, thnkyou

[@Диссидент-г8с]

Very interesting video)) I like it =)

[@alixaprodev]

Nice work 👍

[@darktealglasses]

Please tune the video's audio up

[@user-qv7rw7dq1d]

I hate to be that guy, but Beautiful soup, is not a framework. It's a package/library designed for basic scraping, but its not a framework. In fact, you could, in theory, use BS along with Scrapy as the engine. In comparison, you wouldn't be able to use both Flask and Django together for example, because they are on the same level (Frameworks). Comparing BS to Scrapy, is like comparing Jinja to Django. It doesn't really make sense... even though they both sort of accomplish similar tasks. It kind of feels like you pieced this video together quickly and are giving slightly misleading info.

[@gaurav2979]

What is your advice for a selenium with python automation guy new to the task and domain of web skrapping.

[@user-qv7rw7dq1d]

@@gaurav2979 Don't focus on tutorials after the first few weeks. Try to build something as quickly as possible. That's what makes you better.

[@notsure6834]

What is scrappy?

[@fallenboy1947]

wanted to install and test kite. i became so sad when found out it needs avx instructions in order to install.

[@brandflouride3867]

nice animations bro

[@expat2010]

What's not to like about this video?

[@king-star9860]

why dont you use kite

[@xfire3778]

He does

[@kestonsmith1354]

I hate Beautifulsoup because it never works for me

[@djosearth3618]

thx

Why do you say bs4 needs dependencies and the others do not? To begin with, scrapy needs twisted, you even mention it yourself!

[@GunjanShrimali]

Good

[@dchaba154]

tldr Simple project? BeautifulSoup Complex? Scrappy Selenium? Better not use it 😁

I like! Keep it up! Would you like to be KZbin friends? :)

[@TheRedTeam]

Dude sounds nervous

[@crabbyfish3691]

Just use pyautogui lmao