Meet Parsel: The selector library behind Scrapy (opens in new tab)

We eat our own spider food since Scrapy is our go-to workhorse on a daily basis. However, there are certain situations where Scrapy can be overkill and that’s when we use Parsel. Parsel is a Python library for extracting data from XML/HTML text using CSS or XPath selectors. It powers the scraping API of the […]