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The Best Web Scraping Packages For Python

Manpreet Singh
2 min readMay 29, 2022

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Hey everyone! Python is an awesome programming language with a ton of capability, if you’re new to Python, check out the link below to learn more about it:

So, let’s take a look at some awesome web scraping packages for Python!

Selenium

Starting off, we have Selenium! This is an awesome web scraping package that is my go-to web scraper for Python. Selenium has the advantage of being available for several different programming languages as well, because of this, developers of this package have brought over tons of features that many other scrapers don’t have. Personally, this is definitely one of the best web scraper for Python, here is the pip command if you would like to install it:

pip install selenium

Beautiful Soup

This is probably the most popular web scraping package with Python, Beautiful Soup was initially released in 2004, although it isn’t as feature packed as Selenium (in my opinion), it definitely is a very powerful package for web scraping. From all of the…

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