Jiaxi Liu (Jesse)

Master’s Graduate

Software Engineer | Scalable APIs · Web Scraping · Data Integration · Code Quality & Refactoring

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Web ScrapingMay 23, 2026

BeautifulSoup and Selenium: Static HTML Parsing vs Browser Automation

BeautifulSoupSeleniumWeb Automation+1

BeautifulSoup and Selenium both work with web pages, but they serve different purposes.

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Web ScrapingMay 23, 2026

Scrapy Review: Engine, Scheduler, Downloader, Spider, Pipeline, and Selectors

ScrapyXPathCSS Selector+1

Scrapy is not just an HTML parser. It is a full crawling framework for request scheduling, downloading, parsing, pipelines, and middleware.

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