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A Python Library for Pulling Data Out of HTML and XML Files

Introduction

  >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
  >>> soup = BeautifulSoup("<p>Some<b>bad<i>HTML")
  >>> print soup.prettify()
  <html>
   <body>
    <p>
     Some
     <b>
      bad
      <i>
       HTML
      </i>
     </b>
    </p>
   </body>
  </html>
  >>> soup.find(text="bad")
  u'bad'

  >>> soup.i
  <i>HTML</i>

  >>> soup = BeautifulSoup("<tag1>Some<tag2/>bad<tag3>XML", "xml")
  >>> print soup.prettify()
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">
  <tag1>
   Some
   <tag2 />
   bad
   <tag3>
    XML
   </tag3>
  </tag1>

Full documentation

The bs4/doc/ directory contains full documentation in Sphinx
format. Run “make html” in that directory to create HTML
documentation.

Running the unit tests

Beautiful Soup supports unit test discovery from the project root directory:

 $ nosetests

 $ python -m unittest discover -s bs4 ## Python 2.7 and up

If you checked out the source tree, you should see a script in the
home directory called test-all-versions. This script will run the unit
tests under Python 2.7, then create a temporary Python 3 conversion of
the source and run the unit tests again under Python 3.

Links

Homepage: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/
Documentation: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
http://readthedocs.org/docs/beautiful-soup-4/
Discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/
Development: https://code.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/
Bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/

Download Details:

Author: waylan
Download Link: Download The Source Code
Official Website: https://github.com/waylan/beautifulsoup
License: View license

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A Python Library for Pulling Data Out of HTML and XML Files
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