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Trafilatura is a Python package and command-line tool designed to gather text on the Web. It includes discovery, extraction and text-processing components. Its main applications are web crawling, downloads, scraping, and extraction of main texts, metadata and comments. It aims at staying handy and modular: no database is required, the output can be converted to various commonly used formats. Going from raw HTML to essential parts can alleviate many problems related to text quality, first by...

Wombat is a lightweight web crawling and scraping library written in Ruby that focuses on extracting structured data from web pages using a concise domain-specific language (DSL). It is designed to simplify the process of defining how information should be collected from HTML documents without requiring large amounts of scraping boilerplate code. Developers can declare the data fields they want and specify selectors or rules for retrieving them, allowing Wombat to parse and return structured...

...Through its annotation-based design, developers can define crawling rules and data extraction logic directly within Java classes, reducing boilerplate code and improving readability. Gecco also provides mechanisms for handling dynamic web content, including support for asynchronous requests and extraction of JavaScript variables from pages. Gecco emphasizes extensibility and follows an open design that allows additional components and integrations to be added without modifying the core codebase.