Description:
Web Outside of Browsers
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Type: Formula
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Latest Version: 3.7@5
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Tracked Since: Dec 6, 2025
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Links:
Homepage |
formulae.brew.sh
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Category: Developer tools
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Tags:
web-scraping
automation
python
cli
headless
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Install:
brew install woob
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About:
Woob is a set of libraries and tools designed to scrape and interact with websites without a traditional web browser. It provides a unified Python API to automate data extraction, form submissions, and navigation across various online services. This approach enables efficient, scriptable web automation for data mining and integration tasks.
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Key Features:
- Modular architecture with drivers for specific websites
- Headless operation without browser dependencies
- Python API for easy integration and scripting
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Use Cases:
- Automating data extraction from banking or e-commerce sites
- Integrating web services into internal applications
- Building custom scrapers for data aggregation
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Alternatives:
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Selenium
– Browser-based automation, heavier resource usage
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Scrapy
– General-purpose web crawling framework, less focused on interactive form handling
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