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@ -8,14 +8,17 @@ How does Scrapy compare to BeautifulSoul or lxml?
`BeautifulSoup`_ and `lxml`_ are libraries for parsing HTML and XML. Scrapy is
an application framework for writing web spiders that crawl web sites and
extract data from it. Scrapy provides some mechanisms for extracting data
(called selectors) but you can easily use `BeautifulSoup`_ or `lxml`_ if you
feel more comfortable with them. After all, they're just parsing libraries
which can be imported and used from any Python code.
extract data from them.
Scrapy provides a built-in mechanism for extracting data (called
:ref:`selectors <topics-selectors>`) but you can easily use `BeautifulSoup`_
(or `lxml`_) instead, if you feel more comfortable working with them. After
all, they're just parsing libraries which can be imported and used from any
Python code.
In other words, comparing `BeautifulSoup`_ or `lxml`_ to Scrapy is like
comparing `urllib`_ or `urlparse`_ to `Django`_ (a popular Python web
framework).
application framework).
.. _BeautifulSoup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
.. _lxml: http://codespeak.net/lxml/