What are some good web crawlers in Python

Question

I am new to Python. Now I want to learn web crawling in Python. What are some good frameworks used for this purpose in Python?

Answer 1

Following are the libraries that can help you perform web crawling -

1. Scrapy

2. Urllib2

3. Beautifulsoup

4. Mechanize

5. Twil

Comments

Which one is the best?

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Personally I like beautifulsoup. It is very convenient to use. Following are the steps involved in implementing it for web crawling -

1. Send a HTTP request to the URL of the webpage you want to access. The server responds to the request by returning the HTML content of the webpage. For this task, we will use a third-party HTTP library for python requests.
2. Once we have accessed the HTML content, we are left with the task of parsing the data. Since most of the HTML data is nested, we cannot extract data simply through string processing. One needs a parser which can create a nested/tree structure of the HTML data.
   There are many HTML parser libraries available but the most advanced one is html5lib.
3. Now, all we need to do is navigating and searching the parse tree that we created, i.e. tree traversal. For this task, we will be using another third-party python library, beautifulsoup. It is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. 

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