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Python 201 - Interactively Learn Advanced Concepts in Python 3

BeautifulSoup

Explore how to use BeautifulSoup for web scraping by parsing HTML content in Python. Learn installation steps, basic code implementations, and methods to extract specific data from web pages, including practical examples like scraping tweets from Twitter.

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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:

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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 ...