Do not use Selenium for web scraping

Do not use Selenium for web scraping(buklijas.info)

5 points by sasa_buklijas 7 years ago | 2 comments

snaky 7 years ago |

> The only exception that I could see for using Selenium as web scraping tool is if a website that you are scraping is using JavaScript to get/display data that you need to scrape.

Like 95% of web sites?

sasa_buklijas 7 years ago | |

Scrapy does have the solution for JavaScript with Splash, but I have never used it, so far I always found some workaround.

snaky 7 years ago |

> The only exception that I could see for using Selenium as web scraping tool is if a website that you are scraping is using JavaScript to get/display data that you need to scrape.

Like 95% of web sites?

sasa_buklijas 7 years ago | |

Scrapy does have the solution for JavaScript with Splash, but I have never used it, so far I always found some workaround.