Which is better to use as I find that both do the same work. Are there any situations where scrapy is better?
Scrapy and bs4 comparison
Hi @saksham_105
Long story short: Scrapy is a fully-featured python framework used for web scraping. While the alternative is Beautiful Soup, a set of functional tools used for extracting data from HTML and XML. Notice the difference here, Scrapy specialises in Scraping while Beautiful Soup is for parsing / extracting. Their features overlap a bit but the target functionality is different.
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