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I personally find Capybara[0] to be the happy medium for web scraping, if Python isn't a hard requirement. It has a simple API, like MechanicalSoup, but it can
by lazerwalker 12y ago
I personally find Capybara[0] to be the happy medium for web scraping, if Python isn't a hard requirement. It has a simple API, like MechanicalSoup, but it can also easily be configured to use Selenium, node-webkit, or any other browser you want for full proper JS evaluation.
[0]http://github.com/jnicklas/capybara http://github.com/jnicklas/capybara
- actionscripted 12y agoUnfortunately there isn't a Capybara library for Python. There are comparable packages like Lettuce and now MechanicalSoup (to a certain extent).