You might be looking for the documentation for Beautiful Soup 3. If so, you should know that Beautiful Soup 3 is no longer being developed, and that Beautiful Soup 4 is recommended for all new projects.
These instructions illustrate all major features of Beautiful Soup 4, with examples. I show you what the library is good for, how it works, how to use it, how to make it do what you want, and what to do when it violates your expectations. This document covers Beautiful Soup version 4.8.1.
These instructions illustrate all major features of Beautiful Soup 4, with examples. I show you what the library is good for, how it works, how to use it, how to make it do what you want, and what to do when it violates your expectations. This document covers Beautiful Soup version 4.14.3.
Beautiful Soup is a library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages. It sits atop an HTML or XML parser, providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying the parse tree.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a web scraper using Beautiful Soup along with the Requests library to scrape and parse job listings from a static website. Static websites provide consistent HTML content, while dynamic sites may require handling JavaScript.
With BeautifulSoup4, we can extract specific elements, attributes and text from complex web pages using intuitive methods. This library abstracts away the complexities of HTML and XML structures, enabling us to focus on retrieving and processing the data we need.
Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work. Here's an HTML document I'll be using as an example throughout this document.