Web scraping automation with Python

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Build smart application to collect and scrap data from a variety of online sources using these open-source data scrapping libraries.


In today’s world, we are surrounded loads of data of different types and from diverse sources. And every business organisation wants to make the best use of this data. The ability to gather and utilise this data is a must-have skill for every data scientist.


Web scraping is the process of extracting structured and unstructured data from the web with the help of programs and exporting into a useful format. You can efficiently use the Python language to build application to harvest online data through these specific Python libraries.


The following list covers the top and trending libraries for web data scrapping. By clicking on each you can check out the overview, code examples, best applications and cases for each of them, and a lot more. Scroll through:

Working with HTTP to request a web page

requestsby psf

Python doticonstar image 49787 doticonVersion:v2.31.0doticon
License: Permissive (Apache-2.0)

A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

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            requestsby psf

            Python doticon star image 49787 doticonVersion:v2.31.0doticon License: Permissive (Apache-2.0)

            A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
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                      grequestsby spyoungtech

                      Python doticonstar image 4246 doticonVersion:v0.6.0doticon
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                      Requests + Gevent = <3

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                                grequestsby spyoungtech

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                                Requests + Gevent = <3
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                                          httplib2by httplib2

                                          Python doticonstar image 462 doticonVersion:Currentdoticon
                                          License: Others (Non-SPDX)

                                          Small, fast HTTP client library for Python. Features persistent connections, cache, and Google App Engine support. Originally written by Joe Gregorio, now supported by community.

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                                                    httplib2by httplib2

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                                                    Small, fast HTTP client library for Python. Features persistent connections, cache, and Google App Engine support. Originally written by Joe Gregorio, now supported by community.
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                                                              Complete web scraping framework

                                                              scrapyby scrapy

                                                              Python doticonstar image 47503 doticonVersion:2.9.0doticon
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                                                              Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.

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                                                                        scrapyby scrapy

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                                                                        Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
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                                                                                  Parsing HTML, XML

                                                                                  BeautifulSoup4by il-vladislav

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                                                                                  BeautifulSoup 4 for Python 3.3

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                                                                                            BeautifulSoup4by il-vladislav

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                                                                                            BeautifulSoup 4 for Python 3.3
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                                                                                                      lxmlby lxml

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                                                                                                      The lxml XML toolkit for Python

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                                                                                                                lxmlby lxml

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                                                                                                                The lxml XML toolkit for Python
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