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Re:Better Python Scraping - Installing lxml and Beautiful Soup by wesleyzhao on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @09:25AM (#2705280)
Hm interesting thought. Any good tutorials/sites I can use to get going on this? Or is it so simple I won't even need that. I find myself scraping a lot, so finding the best lib for that is a priority.
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Re:Better Python Scraping - Installing lxml and Beautiful Soup by pxm on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:43PM (#2706961)
Just tried this out last week. The docs are pretty sparse, but it seems to mirror the jQuery interface fairly closely so if you're familiar with one, you'll have a fair idea of the other: http://packages.python.org/pyquery/api.html

That's the key advantage as I see it. If I'm scraping something it's often in a hurry and I just want it done. Not having to internalise a new API is a significant win in that respect.

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