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About beautifulsoup4

Beautifulsoup4 is a Python library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages (a version of Beautiful Soup). It sits atop an HTML or XML parser, providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying the parse tree.

Beautifulsoup4 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.

Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick projects like screen-scraping.

1. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need.
2. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8.
3. Beautiful Soup sits on top of popular Python parsers like lxml and html5lib, allowing you to try out different parsing strategies or trade speed for flexibility.

You can learn more on the Beautiful Soup website.