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<p>Created page with &quot;{{Entry |Name=Beautiful Soup |Short description=a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. |Full description=Beautiful Soup is a Python...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Entry<br /> |Name=Beautiful Soup<br /> |Short description=a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping.<br /> |Full description=Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful:<br /> * 1. Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away.<br /> * 2. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You don't have to create a custom parser for each application.<br /> * 3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings, unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup can't autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original encoding.<br /> * Beautiful Soup parses anything you give it, and does the tree traversal stuff for you. You can tell it &amp;quot;Find all the links&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;Find all the links of class externalLink&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;Find all the links whose urls match &amp;quot;foo.com&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;Find the table heading that's got bold text, then give me that text.&amp;quot; Valuable data that was once locked up in poorly-designed websites is now within your reach. Projects that would have taken hours take only minutes with Beautiful Soup.<br /> |User level=intermediate<br /> |Status=Live<br /> |Component programs=<br /> |Homepage URL=http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/<br /> |VCS checkout command=<br /> |Computer languages=Python<br /> |Documentation note=http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html<br /> |Paid support=<br /> |IRC help=<br /> |IRC general=<br /> |IRC development=<br /> |Related projects=<br /> |Keywords=HTML,XML,screen,tree,scraper,scraping,markup,parser,parse<br /> |Is GNU=n<br /> |Last review by=Kelly Hopkins<br /> |Last review date=2009-06-09<br /> |Submitted by=Database conversion<br /> |Submitted date=2011-04-01<br /> |Version identifier=3.1.0.1<br /> |Version date=2009-01-06<br /> |Version status=stable<br /> |Version download=http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/BeautifulSoup.tar.gz<br /> |License verified date=2009-06-09<br /> |Version comment=<br /> }}<br /> {{Person<br /> |Role=Maintainer<br /> |Real name=Leonard Richardson<br /> |Email=leonardr@collab.net<br /> |Resource URL=<br /> }}<br /> {{Resource<br /> |Resource audience=Developer<br /> |Resource kind=Download<br /> |Resource URL=http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/#Download<br /> }}<br /> {{Resource<br /> |Resource audience=Developer<br /> |Resource kind=Homepage<br /> |Resource URL=https://launchpad.net/beautifulsoup<br /> }}<br /> {{Resource<br /> |Resource audience=General<br /> |Resource kind=Forum<br /> |Resource URL=http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup<br /> }}<br /> {{Software category<br /> |Interface=command-line<br /> |Use=web-authoring<br /> |Web-authoring=html-format-conversion,xml<br /> |Works-with=html,xml<br /> }}<br /> {{Project license<br /> |License=BSD_3Clause<br /> |License verified by=Kelly Hopkins<br /> |License verified date=2009-06-09<br /> }}</div>

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