Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in alternative libraries

Are Python requests deprecated?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Oct 22, 2023

Python Requests is a popular library for making HTTP requests. Despite confusion caused by AWS, it remains actively maintained and supports the latest Python versions.

What is the alternative to BeautifulSoup in Python?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 5, 2024

BeautifulSoup is a popular Python library for parsing HTML, but there are alternatives like XML parsing, html.parser, and regular expressions.

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