
For a long time, I have been using Beautiful Soup 4 to extract data from web pages' HTML markup, it's popular, easy, robust, and battle-tested library for navigating, searching, and modifying the DOM tree. But, recently I came across Parsel, another HTML parsing library that supports XPath selectors, which is missing in Beautiful Soup, and I was in need of using something that can extract data from HTML using XPath so I decided to get it a try. Here's my thought after using it!