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dryscrape vs Watir

A side-by-side look at dryscrape and Watir. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

dryscrape

dryscrape

Development

dryscrape is a lightweight web scraping library for Python that allows scraping JavaScript-rendered web pages without needing Selenium or a web browser. It renders pages using QtWebkit and provides tools for extracting content from the rendered pages.

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Watir

Watir

Development

Watir is an open-source Ruby library for automating web browsers. It drives browsers the same way people do, enabling testing and scripting of web applications. Watir supports IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

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