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ParseHub vs Scrapy: What are the differences?
Developers describe ParseHub as "Turn dynamic websites into APIs". You can extract data from anywhere. ParseHub works with single-page apps, multi-page apps and just about any other modern web technology. ParseHub can handle Javascript, AJAX, cookies, sessions and redirects. You can easily fill in forms, loop through dropdowns, login to websites, click on interactive maps and even deal with infinite scrolling. On the other hand, Scrapy is detailed as "A fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python". It is the most popular web scraping framework in Python. An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites. In a fast, simple, yet extensible way.
ParseHub and Scrapy belong to "Web Scraping API" category of the tech stack.
Scrapy is an open source tool with 33.5K GitHub stars and 7.87K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Scrapy's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of ParseHub
- Great support6
- Easy setup5
- Complex websites5
- Native Desktop App3