Python Web Scraping - Second Edition

Comparing performance

To help evaluate the trade-offs between the three scraping approaches described in the section, Three approaches to scrape a web page, it would be helpful to compare their relative efficiency. Typically, a scraper would extract multiple fields from a web page. So, for a more realistic comparison, we will implement extended versions of each scraper which extract all the available data from a country's web page. To get started, we need to return to our browser to check the format of the other country features, as shown here:

By using our browser's inspect capabilities, we can see each table row has an ID starting with ...