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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...

...Grab provides an API for performing network requests and for handling the received content e.g. interacting with DOM tree of the HTML document. The single request/response API that allows you to build network request, perform it and work with the received content. The API is built on top of urllib3 and lxml libraries. The Spider API to build asynchronous web crawlers. You write classes that define handlers for each type of network request. Each handler is able to spawn new network requests. Network requests are processed concurrently with a pool of asynchronous web sockets. Grab provides interface called Spider to develop multithreaded web-site scrapers.