Listly vs. Selenium

What is Selenium?

(https://help.listly.io/docs/listly-blog/blog/listly-vs-selenium#what-is-selenium)

Seleniumarrow-up-right is an open-source automation tool, primarily used to test web applications. It provides a framework for automating interactions with web browsers to simulate user actions such as clicking buttons and navigating through web pages. It supports multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) and complex interactions, including drag-and-drop and mouse movements via its APIs. With its flexibility and extensibility, Selenium is also used for web scraping, data extraction, and web automation.

Why use Selenium for web scraping?

(https://help.listly.io/docs/listly-blog/blog/listly-vs-selenium#why-use-selenium-for-web-scraping)

Selenium is capable of handling dynamic content—web content that changes depending on user interactions, session state, past purchases, geo-location, etc. Traditional web scraping libraries often struggle to parse such dynamic, JavaScript-generated content. Selenium can interact with pages like a real user, rendering and processing JavaScript and automating interactions, which is why it’s commonly used for web scraping despite being designed originally for testing.

Listly vs. Selenium: What are the differences?

(https://help.listly.io/docs/listly-blog/blog/listly-vs-selenium#listly-vs.-selenium-what-are-the-differences)

Selenium may give you more control and flexibility when dealing with highly dynamic websites that require interactions beyond simple HTML parsing, but it typically requires heavier coding. Learn more about how Listly’s efficient and user-friendly approach helps freelancers, individual professionals, and businesses streamline data collection workflows.

• Ease of use

• Performance

• Maintenance

• Pricing

Neat features that maximize Listly

(https://help.listly.io/docs/listly-blog/blog/listly-vs-selenium#neat-features-that-maximize-listly)

Web browser extension

(https://help.listly.io/docs/listly-blog/blog/listly-vs-selenium#web-browser-extension)

A browser extension is a powerful piece of software added to a web browser in just one click, which is much simpler to install. Since it requires minimal setup compared to configuring scripts or using external tools in Selenium, this convenience allows users to start scraping almost immediately. Listly’s extension features a straightforward graphical user interface (GUI) with point-and-click buttons, simplifying interaction and making web scraping more accessible to users with varying technical expertise.

Listly for enterprises

(https://help.listly.io/docs/listly-blog/blog/listly-vs-selenium#listly-for-enterprises)

Listly Enterprise is a custom B2B plan that allows enterprises to extract large-scale data with dedicated and exclusive server resources. Customize workflows for web scraping, data extraction, and web automation with Listly.

• Improve team productivity at an unlimited scale

• Collect enormous volumes of data with reliable dedicated servers

• Track the progress of web scraping tasks across teams

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