Grab your coffee. Here are this week’s highlights.

📅 Today’s Picks

Scrapling: Adaptive Web Scraping in Python

Problem

Traditional scraping with BeautifulSoup uses hardcoded CSS selectors to find elements on a page.

If the site updates its layout, those selectors no longer match and the scraper ends up returning empty data.

Solution

Instead of relying only on selectors, Scrapling records how elements appear during the initial scrape.

If the site is redesigned later, it can use that stored structure to find the same elements again.

Ibis: One Python API for 25+ Database Backends

Problem

Many data workflows begin with pandas for quick experimentation, while production pipelines might run on databases like PostgreSQL or BigQuery.

Moving from prototype to production usually means rewriting the same transformation logic in SQL. That translation takes time and can easily introduce errors.

Solution

Ibis solves this by letting you define transformations once in Python and compiling them into native SQL for 25+ backends automatically.

☕️ Weekly Finds

Kronos [Machine Learning] – A decoder-only foundation model pre-trained on K-line sequences for financial market forecasting

pixi [Environment Management] – Fast, cross-platform package manager built on the Conda ecosystem, written in Rust

MinerU [OCR/PDF Processing] – One-stop tool for converting PDFs, webpages, and e-books into machine-readable markdown and JSON

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