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Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: 1. Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away. 2. 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. You don't have to create a custom parser for each application. 3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings, unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup can't autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original encoding.
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Beautiful Soup parses arbitrarily invalid XML- or HTML-like substance
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into a tree representation. It provides methods and Pythonic idioms
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that make it easy to search and modify the tree.
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A well-formed XML/HTML document will yield a well-formed data
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structure. An ill-formed XML/HTML document will yield a
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correspondingly ill-formed data structure. If your document is only
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locally well-formed, you can use this library to find and process the
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well-formed part of it. The BeautifulSoup class has heuristics for
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obtaining a sensible parse tree in the face of common HTML errors.
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WWW: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
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