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I need to extract some information from not very complicated HTML pages in web. I don’t need to crawl or anything, just some XPath selectors or similar.
which library is the fastest in mean of setting up and coding (i.e. getting quick results!)? Scrapy, BeautifulSoap, …, or basic HTMLParser?
I’ve had some experience with
BeautifulSoupand was able to get results out in a matter of minutes. The following tutorial page was very helpful, with lots of examples:Leonard Richardson’s BeautifulSoup Documentation