> is it selenium replacement No completely different use case. Selenium is browser automation. Mechanical soup/Mechanize/Robobrowser are not actually web brows

> is it selenium replacement No completely different use case. Selenium is browser automation. Mechanical soup/Mechanize/Robobrowser are not actually web browsers, they have no javascript support either. They're python libraries that can simulate a web browser but doing GET requests, storing cookies across requests, filling http POST forms, etc. The downside is that they don't work with websites which rely on JavaScript to load content. But if you're scraping a website like that, then it might be easier and way way faster to analyze web requests using dev tools or mitmproxy, then automating those API calls instead of automating a browser.