🕸Web scraping automation: 3 popular tools
Do you want to track prices in an online store or automate ordering food in a restaurant? Try the following remedies:
• Selenium is a well-known test automation framework that can be used to simulate user behavior and perform actions on websites such as filling out forms, clicking buttons, etc. https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/
• Beautiful Soup is a Python-package for parsing HTML and XML documents. Creates a parse tree that can be used to extract data when parsing web pages. Very good for simple projects. https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/
• Scrapy is a fast, high-level website crawling and crawling framework used to extract structured data for mining, monitoring, and automated testing. It is great for complex projects and is much faster than the aforementioned counterparts. https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/