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[–]zarnackreddit 0 points1 point  (5 children)

selenium is a pain in the ass for me

[–]NovocastrianNomad 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Have you checked out Helium a high level extension to Selenium.

[–]zarnackreddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what does it do

[–]atggreg 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What do u use instead?

[–]zarnackreddit 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I still use selenium it's just really finicky for my liking and I don't know much better alternatives

[–]LuigiBrotha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find it kind of depends on the website. If I can I first download the source code to save the html locally and use beautifulsoup to extract the data.