lxml is fast because it's basically a Python wrapper around libxml2, which is a battle-tested C library. No surprises there.
But have you tried `parsel`? It's what Scrapy uses, and it's *almost* as fast as lxml python but with a nicer API. Plus, it plays well with Scrapy if you're into large-scale scraping.
For benchmarks, check out this repo: [github.com/lorien/html_parser_benchmark](https://github.com/lorien/html_parser_benchmark). It's a bit outdated but still useful.
But have you tried `parsel`? It's what Scrapy uses, and it's *almost* as fast as lxml python but with a nicer API. Plus, it plays well with Scrapy if you're into large-scale scraping.
For benchmarks, check out this repo: [github.com/lorien/html_parser_benchmark](https://github.com/lorien/html_parser_benchmark). It's a bit outdated but still useful.