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Beautiful Soup is a Python library for quick-turnaround screen-scraping projects, providing simple methods to navigate, search, and modify a parse tree. It automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8, and sits on top of parsers like lxml and html5lib, allowing you to try out different parsing strategies. It is MIT-licensed, supports Python 3.7 and greater (Python 2 support ended), and can be installed via pip; enterprise support is available through Tidelift.
Tone of voice
31% of how AI describes Beautiful Soup reads positive, but a real minority does not.
Words AI uses
AI reaches for lightweight · simple · traditional when it describes Beautiful Soup.
The market map
Web Scraping & Browser Automation APIs →Where AI ranks Beautiful Soup