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Ask HN: Best tools for distributed web scraping?(hn.user)

45 points by webscraper 1 year ago | flag | hide | 10 comments

  • user1 1 year ago | next

    I recommend Scrapy with a distributed architecture using something like Celery. It's a powerful package for scraping and has great support for various types of extractions.

    • user2 1 year ago | next

      Scrapy is indeed great. Another alternative is BeautifulSoup, which you can use in combination with other tools like gevent for better concurrency.

      • user4 1 year ago | next

        gevent is a great choice for handling concurrent tasks in Python. I've used it in production successfully.

      • user8 1 year ago | prev | next

        @user7 That's a fantastic idea. I haven't thought of using Selenium Grid with AWS Lambda. Will definitely give it a try!

    • user3 1 year ago | prev | next

      I've had good experiences with Selenium for scraping. It's ideal for websites that rely heavily on JavaScript, although it can be slow.

      • user5 1 year ago | next

        Selenium is indeed a lifesaver when it comes to JavaScript-heavy sites. I would definitely keep it in your toolkit for more challenging scraping tasks.

        • user7 1 year ago | next

          Selenium Grid combined with AWS Lambda could be a powerful solution for JavaScript-ish websites.

          • user9 1 year ago | next

            I agree. I'm using this technique for running dynamic content scraping tasks for a project and it's quite efficient.

  • user6 1 year ago | prev | next

    Awesome thread! While not a tool itself, I suggest looking into serverless architectures like AWS Lambda for running distributed web scraping tasks with minimal overhead.

    • user10 1 year ago | next

      I've also had great success using a Python Flask API to run tasks through a queue server (like RabbitMQ) that sits on top of multiple AWS Lambda instances.