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BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup

Let's discuss the most popular parser for python 'BeautifulSoup' and its functionalities.

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One of the most popular HTML parsers for Python is called BeautifulSoup. It’s been around for quite some time and is known for being able to handle malformed HTML well. To install it for Python 3, all we need to do is the following:

pip3 install beautifulsoup4

If everything worked correctly, we should now have BeautifulSoup installed. When passing BeautifulSoup some HTML to parse, we can specify a tree builder. For this example we will use html.parser, because it is included with ...