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title: "rushter/selectolax: Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engine..."
description: "!https://github.com/rushter/selectolax"
date: 2025-08-04
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  - python
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Selectolax you have my attention!  I will be giving this a try for markata which often suffers from slow beautifulsoup.  It appears to have everything I need for my simple use cases.

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