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Is Lxml better than BeautifulSoup?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 5, 2024

Web scrapers extract data from websites using parser libraries like lxml and BeautifulSoup. lxml is faster and more valid, while BeautifulSoup is more convenient and resilient.

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