Beautiful Soup (HTML parser)

For other uses, see Beautiful Soup.
Beautiful Soup
Original author(s) Leonard Richardson
Stable release 4.4.1 / September 28, 2015 (2015-09-28)
Written in Python
Platform Python
Type HTML parser library, Web scraping
License Python Software Foundation License (Beautiful Soup 3 - an older version) MIT License 4+[1]
Website www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Beautiful Soup is a Python package for parsing HTML and XML documents (including having malformed markup, i.e. non-closed tags, so named after tag soup). It creates a parse tree for parsed pages that can be used to extract data from HTML, which is useful for web scraping.[2]

It is available for Python 2.6+ and Python 3.

Code example

# anchor extraction from html document
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2

webpage = urllib2.urlopen('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page')
soup = BeautifulSoup(webpage,'html.parser')
for anchor in soup.find_all('a'):
    print(anchor.get('href', '/'))

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Beautiful Soup website". Retrieved 18 April 2012. Beautiful Soup is licensed under the same terms as Python itself
  2. ↑ "Beautiful Soup website". Retrieved 18 April 2012.


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