Optimal programming language for writing a web scraper?

Question

Parsing

Hello. I decided to write a web parser - which will take information from one website and transfer it to another. What is the best SP for this case? The speed of work is not so important, but it's good that it's not very slow.
ps is familiar with php,c++,c#.delphi (currently I write mainly in PHP).

Answer 1

In my opinion - anyone, it's not about the language, but about the available tools for parsing. In the case of C#, there is a pretty nice HTML parser .

Answer 2

for safe and fast data parsing, IMHO scala is an ideal solution, but of course it’s better to write parsers on what is more familiar.

Answer 3

python + scrapy.org

Answer 4

I did parsing sites with JavaScript through simulation, tested all this on Linux servers with rabbitmq, the network worked for half a year until I got tired of Chromium and Lazarus-IDE on the server side, with the installation ...