I would say Python is the better language for web scraping due to its ease of use. It comes with a large number of libraries and frameworks, and strong support for data analysis and visualization. Python’s BeautifulSoup and requests libraries are widely used for web scraping, and they provide a simple and powerful way to extract data from HTML documents.
But there is a catch in all of this noise. Python is very bad at handling concurrent threads. Your server will overload itself when you are scraping some websites at a very high volume. Python works in a synchronous mode which might be the only disadvantage of using Python in production scraper.