Installation of dryscrape with Qt
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Hi,
I am trying to download dryscrape, however I see that Qt and QtWebKit are a requirement. (I'm using Windows)
I've installed Qt, but I'm finding the QtWebKit installation guide (https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/wiki) really confusing and despite having all the requirements I can't help but think that I'm missing something. -
@glycogen
Before you proceed too far. Qt WebKit used to ship with Qt, but no longer does (Qt WebEngine replaced its functionality). Your dryscrape looks like it was last updated in 2012, and https://github.com/niklasb/dryscrape/ states in bold:NOTE: This package is not actively maintained. It uses QtWebkit, which is end-of-life and probably doesn't get security fixes backported. Consider using a similar package like Spynner instead.
So is this dryscrape a good choice for you?
P.S.
I have even worse news for you! :( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38254948/pip-cannot-install-dryscrape :dryscrape isn't compatible with qt 5.6+. You need qt <= 5.5 due to qt WebKit/WebEngine requirement.
I believe your problem is that dryscrape does not support windows.
https://pypi.org/project/dryscrape/ :
Windows is not officially supported, although dryscrape should work with cygwin.
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@glycogen
So I have given you a bunch of references/quotes to look through. You can see others did not succeed. And the fact remains that Qt WebKit is not supplied since Qt 5.5. (Though you have instructions from the wiki page you referenced if you want to try it.) And even the author of the dryscape package states it probably should not used. What would you like?
