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Which library to use - Dbeah - Oct-29-2018
Ok, am a beginner in python now that i have done the basics i need to do so cool stuff
I need a program to grab some screen data from chrome(browser) then analys it and execute back on chrome
I intend to learn opencv for grabbing data but i dont know which library to use to execute
Please advise on any lib to use and any other that may be helpful in my mini project
RE: Which library to use - DeaD_EyE - Oct-29-2018
If you need to execute JavaScript on the Page, you can look for https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/
This runs a browser session (Firefox, Chrome or other) and you have control over this session.
If you just want to grab content from a page without this dedicated browser session, you should look for requests and Requests-HTML (also JS support).
Another library which is built on top of html.parser/lxml is BeautifulSoup 4, which is a little bit tricky to handle.
EDIT: I used one minute ago requests_html to download something from a web page on my server, where a login is required. This library is very cool. It worked directly :-)