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Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines. Fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors for Python.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2017-11-30 · latest 2024-11-18

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  1. Lexbor can also be used from Python: https://github.com/rushter/selectolax
    comment by ForceBru · 2024-11-18 · in Nokolexbor: Drop-in replacement for Nokogiri. 5.2x faster at parsing HTML
  2. We have been using https://github.com/rushter/selectolax as a faster alternative to BeautifulSoup with html5lib because many malformed webpages in the wild don't work with lxml.
    comment by bratao · 2024-06-12 · in Lexbor – An open source HTML Renderer library
  3. …Modest or Lexbor is ~25x faster at HTML parsing than BeautifulSoup in the selectolax benchmark: https://github.com/rushter/selectolax#simple-benchmark ) (Apache Nutch is a Java-based web crawler which supports e.g. CommonCrawl (which backs…
    comment by westurner · 2023-09-11 · in Code-gov: A collection point for all Code.gov repositories
  4. Lazyweb link: https://github.com/rushter/selectolax although I don't follow the need to have what appears to be two completely separate HTML parsing C libraries as dependencies; seeing this in the readme for Modest gives me the shivers…
    comment by mdaniel · 2021-10-11 · in The State of Web Scraping in 2021