C# or Python for web projects (webdev, bots, scrapping) ?

[andretg]

Hi guys! So I want to get into monetizing my programming skills and one thing I'm not sure about is which programming language should I focus on, especially for web development. I'm fairly good in C# as I've been using it (and loving it) for some years now but I'm only a couple of months into learning Python.
So I have two questions:

1)What are the restrictions of using C# for web development compared to using Python?

2)Should I stick to learning Python and Django with the hope that I might use them later for other kinds of purposes or should I stick to C#?

3)Could you point me to some resources that describe web related tasks accomplished with C#?

Thanks!

 

[buzz]

Hi guys! So I want to get into monetizing my programming skills and one thing I'm not sure about is which programming language should I focus on, especially for web development. I'm fairly good in C# as I've been using it (and loving it) for some years now but I'm only a couple of months into learning Python.
So I have two questions:

1)What are the restrictions of using C# for web development compared to using Python?

2)Should I stick to learning Python and Django with the hope that I might use them later for other kinds of purposes or should I stick to C#?

3)Could you point me to some resources that describe web related tasks accomplished with C#?

Thanks!

I actually just posted in the 'hire a freelancer' section and I am looking for a python programmer to create a click bot/scrapper with selenium. I have a good method to earn a lot of money with this. Please send me your skype id if you are interested.

 

[Jomasdf]

Well, you say you are familiare with C#, is there anything that you feel you can't accomplish with that language?

For automating the web here is a couple of libraries you might want to take a look at.

Selenium: http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/ Used it a lot. Very simple and compatible with PhantomJS

WatiN: http://watin.org/ Similare to Selenium

SimpleBrowser: https://github.com/SimpleBrowserDotNet/SimpleBrowser Same stuff

 

[001]

If you're searching a wrapper to http rewuests you can take a look at RestSharp.

Imo, python is the way to go if you'd like to have a working, quick, small script to perform a small-medium sized task. I only use c# to perform more complicated operations and/or products that i will sell/share and that need a GUI and so on.

 

[Hesiod]

For web scraping I recommend Go (Golang). It's a language created by Google, much more performant than python, best suited for networking application that demand high concurrency.

 

[sohom]

Python would be good

 

[JustChillin]

Both can be good, but if you actually want to monetize them, better choice would be C# imo. As for Selenium and stuff, do you actually think it's wise to use it? Why not just learn to use HTTP requests directly, without having to depend on other third-party software, which can take huge amounts of resources?

 

[JaxMan]

I use python. It's a good beginner language for what you need.

 

[MARKK462]

Hi guys! So I want to get into monetizing my programming skills and one thing I'm not sure about is which programming language should I focus on, especially for web development. I'm fairly good in C# as I've been using it (and loving it) for some years now but I'm only a couple of months into learning Python.
So I have two questions:

1)What are the restrictions of using C# for web development compared to using Python?

2)Should I stick to learning Python and Django with the hope that I might use them later for other kinds of purposes or should I stick to C#?

3)Could you point me to some resources that describe web related tasks accomplished with C#?

Thanks!

I'm looking for a web Scrapper for YouTube. I'm looking for someone to build it for me.