Beautiful soup
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| Maintainer | Leonard Richardson |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| Current version |
4.8.2 ( December 24, 2019 ) |
| operating system | cross-platform |
| programming language | python |
| category | Scraper |
| License | Python Software Foundation License ( BSD license ) |
| www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ | |
Beautiful Soup is a free program library for screen scraping . The software, written in Python , can be used to parse XML and HTML documents .
Beautiful Soup 4 can be used with Python 2 and 3. From May 2006 to March 2012, Beautiful Soup 3 was the current version.
Beautiful Soup itself is a front end to the more basic parsers lxml and html5lib .