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# Webscraping

## Overview:

### List of Webscrapers

* BeautifulSoup
* Selenium
* Scrapy

### BeautifulSoup

Used for small projects or quick tests

### Selenium:

Clear choice for webscraper projects that will interact with webtesting or scraping pages that use JS to load content

Webtesting framework that can be used as a webscraper

### Scrapy

Lagre amount of webscraping or handle large amount of data the choice is Scrapy Fast & Efficient, Portable, requires no dependencies but not userfriendly


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