Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to WhiskeySour – A 10x faster drop-in replacement for BeautifulSoup
The Problem I’ve been using BeautifulSoup for sometime. It’s the standard for ease-of-use in Python scraping, but it almost always becomes the performance bottleneck when processing large-scale datasets. Parsing complex or massive HTML trees in Python typically suffers from high memory allocation costs and the overhead of the Python object model during tree traversal. In my production scraping workloads, the parser was consuming more CPU cycles than the network I/O. Lxml is fast but again uses up a lot of memory when processing large documents and has can cause trouble with malformed…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Simple Scraper▲556Turn any website into an API in just a few seconds.
2019 · simplescraper.io · its alternatives →
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Alright so if you run a self-hosted blog, you've probably noticed AI companies scraping it for training data. And not just a little (RIP to your server bill). There isn't much you can do about it without cloudflare. These companies ignore robots.txt, and you're competing with teams with more resources than you. It's you vs the MJs of programming, you're not going to win. But there is a solution. Now I'm not going to say it's a great solution...but a solution is a solution. If your website contains content that will trigger their scraper's safeguards, it will get dropped from their data…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! I'm Marcell, and I'm working on FetchFox (https://fetchfoxai.com). It's a Chrome extension that lets you use AI to scrape any website for any data. I'd love to get your feedback. Here's a quick demo showing how you can use it to scrape leads from an auto dealer directory. What's cool is that it scrapes non-uniform pages, which is quite hard to do with "traditional" scrapers: https://youtu.be/wPbyPSFsqzA A little background: I've written lots and lots of scrapers over the last 10+ years. They're fun to write when they work, but the internet has changed in ways…
2024 · fetchfoxai.com · its alternatives →
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Fast C based HTML 5 parsing for python. Contribute to kovidgoyal/html5-parser development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · parsehub.com · its alternatives →
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Your home for data science and AI. The world's leading publication for data science, data analytics, data engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence professionals.
2019 · towardsdatascience.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · shalerb.org · its alternatives →
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We've been trying to evaluate web scraping companies, but when you look at their benchmarks, you can't verify anything, and they mostly exist to prove the company is successful. They put somewhere between 98% and 100% because they pick their own urls, define success their own way, and don't publish the harness. We also saw companies like scrapfly astroturf websites like scrapeway and call them independent. So, we built an open source benchmark that we want to represent the frontier of web data. We're trying to look across all major anti-bot providers and industries, to build a comprehensive…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Ah yes, another web scraper. There are so many out there, so why make another one? Because I wanted one that's stupid simple and stupid fast. Unlike most web scrapers, Easy Scraper doesn’t make you build a new scraper for each site or individually select fields. You just open it and bam, your data's ready to go. My favorite use case for instantly extracting data anywhere is being able to easily talk to ChatGPT about custom datasets. For example, here's a 1-minute demo of me scraping my Twitter followers to find the ones that live in San Francisco:…
2024 · easyscraper.com · its alternatives →
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Rapid Scrapper▲103Automate and extract contents from any website easily
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Robyn is a Super Fast Async Python Web Framework with a Rust runtime. - sparckles/Robyn
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! While working on a project that involves frequently parsing a lot of feeds, I needed a fast JavaScript-based parser to extract specific fields from feed namespaces. Existing Node packages were either too slow or merged all feed formats, losing namespace information. So I decided to write it myself and created this NPM package with a simple API. Feedsmith supports all feed formats and many popular namespaces, including: Podcast, Media, iTunes, Dublin Core, and more. It can also parse and generate OPML files. I am currently adding support for more namespaces and feed generation for RSS,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · louisabraham.github.io · its alternatives →
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Tantivy▲68A full-text, horse-speed search engine library in Rust
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SCRAPE▲59Find emails you're looking for fast with SCRAPE email hunter
2020 · scrape.email · its alternatives →
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I spent a long time working in the payments industry, specifically on a rather niche reporting/aggregation platform with spiky workloads that were not easily parallelized. To pump as much data through our pipeline as possible, we had to rely on complex locking schemes across half a dozen or so not-so-micro services - keeping a clear mental picture of how the services interacted for a given data source was a major headache. This problem always intrigued me, even after I no longer worked at the company, and lead to the development of Wool. If you've worked with frameworks like Ray or…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Target audience? Basically data collectors or anyone trying to scrape data from websites using a GUI What my project does: -Take URLs -Take elements to scrape from those webpages (this is optional in the sense that if you dont specify any elements the app will just scrape the entire page) -You can also send web parameters like Headers, Payloads along with specific URLs. This means it can perform any logins that are necessary -Is able to log the results in a log file, a separate one for each scrape -Data is stored in form of .txt files Some unique features of this project: -Can scrape…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We’ve all accepted the "Python tax"—you trade execution speed for developer happiness. But what if that trade-off was a thing of the past? I just came across BustAPI, and it’s basically a "cheat code" for Python web services. It’s not just another wrapper; it’s a hybrid engine that embeds a Rust (Actix-Web) core directly into the Python runtime. Is this the end of the "slow Python" era? The benchmarks are pretty shocking. I’d love to see someone stress-test this against a production-grade Go or Node.js setup. Repo: https://github.com/GrandpaEJ/BustAPI Benchmarks:…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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