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Difference between Puppeteer and Beautifulsoup

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1. Puppeteer :
Is a tool developed by Google for automating the browser. Puppeteer is very powerful and at the same time, it is very handy to use. Unlike beautifulsoup, It brings the whole browser engine API to work with enabling one to use a lot of advanced features and not just web scraping

2. Beautifulsoup :
Is a library written in python. It proved to be more useful and fast when working with HTML tags and X-paths for web scraping work. It parses the HTML and XML documents.



Difference between Puppeteer and Beautifulsoup :

S.No. Puppeteer Beautifulsoup
1. It is developed and maintained by Google. It was created by Leonard Richardson.
2. It is written in Javascript. This library is written in Python.
3. It brings the whole browser engine API. It only parses the HTML and XML documents.
4. It is slow as compared to beautifulsoup in terms of execution but it can be negligible. It is slightly faster as compared to Puppeteer.
5. It is used for browser automation and scraping work. It is mainly used for scraping data and not for making complex automations.
6. It provides high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It does not provide high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol.
7. It can parse Javascript along with HTML. It cannot parse Javascript.
8. It is a Nodejs library or module. It is a python library.
9. It supports only chrome and chromium. It supports any browser that runs python scripts.


Last Updated : 27 Jul, 2020
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