Beautiful Soup vs Scrapy

Is Scrapy a good alternative to Beautiful Soup? Here’s what you need to know.

Scrapy

Free

Open-source web crawling framework for Python.

Scrapy is a fast, high-level web crawling and scraping framework for Python. Extract data from websites with powerful selectors, built-in export formats, and middleware for handling proxies and user agents.

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Why switch from Beautiful Soup?

Indie pricing — no enterprise markup or per-seat fees
Direct maker support — talk to the person who built it
Transparent & open — many indie tools are open-source
No vendor lock-in — own your data, export anytime

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