Beautiful Soup (HTML parser)

For other uses, see Beautiful Soup.
Beautiful Soup
Original author(s)Leonard Richardson
Initial release2004 (2004)
Stable release
4.12.3[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 17 January 2024; 9 months ago (17 January 2024)
Repository
Written inPython
PlatformPython
TypeHTML parser library, Web scraping
License
Websitewww.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Beautiful Soup is a Python package for parsing HTML and XML documents, including those with malformed markup. It creates a parse tree for documents that can be used to extract data from HTML,[3] which is useful for web scraping.[2][4]

  1. ^ "Changelog". Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Beautiful Soup website". Retrieved 18 April 2012. Beautiful Soup is licensed under the same terms as Python itself
  3. ^ Hajba, Gábor László (2018), Hajba, Gábor László (ed.), "Using Beautiful Soup", Website Scraping with Python: Using BeautifulSoup and Scrapy, Apress, pp. 41–96, doi:10.1007/978-1-4842-3925-4_3, ISBN 978-1-4842-3925-4
  4. ^ Python, Real. "Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python – Real Python". realpython.com. Retrieved 2023-06-01.