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Apifier vs BeautifulSoup: What are the differences?
Developers describe Apifier as "Hosted web crawler for developers". Apifier is a hosted web crawler for developers that enables them to extract data from any website using a few simple lines of JavaScript and rapidly build new apps on top of existing third-party web apps and data sources. On the other hand, BeautifulSoup is detailed as "A Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files". It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.
Apifier and BeautifulSoup can be primarily classified as "Web Scraping API" tools.
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- Perfect for Heavy Java Script Websites4
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- Parsed html even when poorly formed3
- It just works1
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What is Apify?
Apify is a platform that enables developers to create, customize and run cloud-based programs called actors that can, among other things, be used to extract data from any website using a few lines of JavaScript.
What is BeautifulSoup?
It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.
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What are some alternatives to Apify and BeautifulSoup?
Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.
Scrapy
It is the most popular web scraping framework in Python. An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites. In a fast, simple, yet extensible way.
import.io
import.io is a free web-based platform that puts the power of the machine readable web in your hands. Using our tools you can create an API or crawl an entire website in a fraction of the time of traditional methods, no coding required.
ParseHub
Web Scraping and Data Extraction
ParseHub is a free and powerful web scraping tool. With our advanced web scraper, extracting data is as easy as clicking on the data you need.
ParseHub lets you turn any website into a spreadsheet or API w
Octoparse
It is a free client-side Windows web scraping software that turns unstructured or semi-structured data from websites into structured data sets, no coding necessary. Extracted data can be exported as API, CSV, Excel or exported into a database.