Beautiful Soup

By Leonard Richardson ยท Open-source crawler frameworks

About Beautiful Soup

Python library for parsing HTML and XML and searching the tree, usually paired with a separate HTTP client.

Details

  • Open source

    Yes
  • Works without codeNo

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