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Panther vs Scrapy: What are the differences?
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# Key Differences between Panther and Scrapy
1. **Protocol Support**: Panther is primarily designed for HTTP/HTTPS while Scrapy is a more generalized web scraping tool that supports various protocols such as FTP and HTTP.
2. **User Interface**: Panther provides a visual interface for creating web scraping tasks, making it more user-friendly for those who prefer a GUI, whereas Scrapy is a command-line tool requiring knowledge of Python for configuration.
3. **Browser Automation**: Panther includes built-in support for browser automation using headless browsers like Selenium, allowing for tasks such as interacting with dynamic web content, a feature not available in Scrapy.
4. **JavaScript Rendering**: Panther has JavaScript rendering capabilities, allowing it to execute JavaScript on web pages during the scraping process, which can be essential for scraping dynamic websites, whereas Scrapy requires additional tools like Splash for JavaScript rendering.
5. **Scalability**: Scrapy is known for its scalability and ability to handle large-scale web scraping projects, making it a preferred choice for projects requiring a high volume of data extraction and processing compared to Panther.
6. **Community Support**: Scrapy has a larger and more active community with extensive documentation, tutorials, and resources available, making it easier to troubleshoot issues and find solutions compared to Panther.
In Summary, Panther and Scrapy differ in protocol support, user interface, browser automation, JavaScript rendering, scalability, and community support.
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It is a convenient standalone library to scrape websites and to run end-to-end tests using real browsers.
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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.
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