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Portia vs Scrapy: What are the differences?
What is Portia? Visual web scraping tool that lets you extract data without writing a single line of code. Portia is an open source tool that lets you get data from websites. It facilitates and automates the process of data extraction. This visual web scraper works straight from your browser, so you don't need to download or install anything.
What is Scrapy? A fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python. 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.
Portia and Scrapy belong to "Web Scraping API" category of the tech stack.
Portia and Scrapy are both open source tools. It seems that Scrapy with 33.5K GitHub stars and 7.87K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Portia with 7.09K GitHub stars and 1.12K GitHub forks.