Beautiful Soup

Beautiful Soup is an open-source Python library designed for parsing HTML and XML documents. It provides a simple and intuitive API for extracting, navigating, and modifying data from web pages, making it a popular choice for web scraping, automation, and data processing tasks.

Features of Beautiful Soup:

• Easy-to-use Pythonic API for parsing HTML and XML documents.
• Supports multiple parsers including html.parser, lxml, and html5lib.
• Robust handling of malformed or poorly structured markup.
• Powerful search and navigation capabilities using tags, attributes, and CSS selectors.
• Seamless integration with HTTP libraries such as requests and urllib.
• Lightweight and flexible, ideal for scripts and production workflows.
• Widely used in web scraping, data extraction, and automation pipelines.
• Compatible with modern Python versions for rapid development.

Beautiful Soup Usage:

$ sudo su
$ cd /opt
$ source /opt/bs4/activate.sh
$ python -c "from bs4 import BeautifulSoup; print(BeautifulSoup.__version__)"
  

Disclaimer: Beautiful Soup is open-source software distributed under the MIT License. It is independently developed and maintained by the Beautiful Soup open-source community. The software is provided "as is," without warranties or guarantees of any kind. Users are responsible for ensuring proper usage and compliance with applicable licenses and regulations.