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How is BeautifulSoup "outdated"? It's meant for making it easy to scrape non-properly-formatted sites, and works very well at that, as I've found out in practic
by wladimir 15y ago
How is BeautifulSoup "outdated"? It's meant for making it easy to scrape non-properly-formatted sites, and works very well at that, as I've found out in practice.
What's the advantage of Scrapy?
- cdr 15y agohttp://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/3.1-problems.html http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/3.1-problems.ht... I guess it looks like BeautifulSoup finally got a 4.0 alpha release out which supposedly works, but that took several years. The codebase is aged and releases are incredibly slow. "I no longer enjoy working on Beautiful Soup..." "Parsing is longer a competitive advantage for Beautiful Soup, and I'd be happier if I could get out of the parser business altogether."
- wesleyzhao 15y agoVery interesting... I typically would think you should not use a product that a founder/developer does not believe in