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BeautifulSoup vs selenium: What are the differences?

What is BeautifulSoup? Screen-scraping library. Screen-scraping library.

What is selenium? Python bindings for Selenium. Python bindings for Selenium.

BeautifulSoup and selenium can be categorized as "PyPI Packages" tools.

selenium is an open source tool with 20.9K GitHub stars and 6.32K GitHub forks. Here's a link to selenium's open source repository on GitHub.

BeautifulSoup Stats
  • Dependent Packages Counts - 44
selenium Stats
  • Dependent Packages Counts - 362
BeautifulSoup Release info
Latest version
3.2.2
MIT
selenium Release info
Latest version
4.4.3
Apache-2.0
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What is BeautifulSoup?

Screen-scraping library.

What is selenium?

Python bindings for Selenium.

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