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FAQ: compare with Scrappy #260

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moy opened this issue Jan 17, 2019 · 0 comments
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FAQ: compare with Scrappy #260

moy opened this issue Jan 17, 2019 · 0 comments
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moy commented Jan 17, 2019

https://scrapy.org/ seems very close to MechanicalSoup in many aspects. It seems primarily dedicated to scrapping read-only webpages, but there's also https://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/request-response.html#formrequest-objects for form-filling, just like we do in MechanicalSoup.

Scrappy seems to be a much bigger piece of code, but also a more complete and more popular one, with optional commercial support, ...
@hemberger hemberger added easy? Probably easy to implement, or WIP almost complete help wanted labels Jan 5, 2021
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