The best web scraping packages for Python

Welcome back! As some of you may know I talk a ton about web scraping, whether it’s for basic websites like Google, or more complex websites like TikTok, there are an unlimited amount of websites you can scrape data from, so let’s talk about some of my favorite packages you can use to scrape website data using Python!

Selenium

Getting right into it, Selenium is probably my favorite package to use for web scraping. First off, Selenium isn’t specific for Python, you can use it with a couple of different languages as well. Secondly, this package is a crazy useful tool for web scraping, my favorite thing about this package is the ability to essentially imitate a browser, so not only can you scrape data, you can also interact with the website as well! Let me explain:

Let’s say you want to scrape data from a website, but the website requires you to click a button to load more data, you can essentially create a Selenium project to essentially click that button for you within your code! On top of this, you can send keys to a webpage as well, so you can input login credentials, text or any variation to a entry point on a website and load a web page that way as well! Out of all of the packages i’m going to list, this is by far the most feature packed one for sure! If you want to install this package use the following command: