amy_anderson•9h agoMost Upvoted

I picked Python over JavaScript for my first real project and it went sideways

My friend said to build a basic web scraper for local weather data, and I spent a week trying to get it working with JavaScript before hitting a wall with node modules. I switched to Python and used the requests and BeautifulSoup libraries, and had a script pulling data in about three hours. Has anyone else had a project that made them totally switch tools like that?

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wood.faith8h ago

Honestly, that sounds like a you problem, not a JavaScript problem. Node has plenty of great libraries like axios and cheerio that work just fine for scraping. You probably just hit one setup snag and gave up too fast.

mason_lopez7h ago

Ugh, my cheerio setup was a nightmare too.

the_wendy7h ago

My coworker's JavaScript scraper took three days, but his Python version took one afternoon.