BeautifulSoup vs DataKund
Features | BeautifulSoup | DataKund |
Coding experience | Required | Not Required |
Customer Support | Open-source Community | Dedicated support |
API Support | Cannot perform scrape through apis | Can call apis |
Maintenance | Slight change in website can make the code fail | Don't fail with slight changes in website |
Inspection of Elements | Need to inspect elements to write code | It records itself |
Time | Takes time in writing code | Takes no time in making apis |
Dependencies | Depends on bs4 module and programming language | No programming language or module needed |
Locators Knowledge | Knowledge of locators such as id, class etc needed | No such knowledge needed |
Structure | It's library | It's a complete framework |
Extensibility | Limited to scraping only | Can do scraping as well browser actions |
Consideration | Considered as parser | Considered as RPA tool |
Data Format | You need to write code to store in json xcel or spreadsheet | Can attach google sheet for you, then all your data will automatically be saved there |
Following are some of the other differences between BeautifulSoup and DataKund:-
Scrape Text
Action | BeautifulSoup | DataKund |
Scrape product title | title=soup.find("h4",{"id":"title"}).getText() | Right Click on title>DataKund>Scrape>Text>column name |
Scrape Link
Action | BeautifulSoup | DataKund |
Scrape product link | link=soup.find("a",{"id":"product_link"})["href"] | Right Click on product link>DataKund>Scrape>Link>column name |
Looping
Action | BeautifulSoup | DataKund |
Get every search result data | Find common things by inspecting then loop over them(attributes can change) | Apply repeat by Alt+P , then scrape data by right clicking on data points |
Google Sheets
Action | BeautifulSoup | DataKund |
Scraping product links defined in sheet | Will need to write both beautifulsoup and google apis code which takes time | Just make a simple api of scraping one product and attach google sheet to it |
Flow Chart
Action | BeautifulSoup | DataKund |
Showing actions in flow chart | No way of representing flow of actions except manually writing | You can see your actions in flow charts, can edit and delete actions as well |