Metadata-Version: 2.1 Name: beautifulsoup4 Version: 4.9.3 Summary: Screen-scraping library Home-page: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/ Author: Leonard Richardson Author-email: leonardr@segfault.org License: MIT Download-URL: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/download/ Platform: UNKNOWN Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License Classifier: Programming Language :: Python Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: XML Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Markup :: SGML Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules Description-Content-Type: text/markdown Requires-Dist: soupsieve (<2.0,>1.2) ; python_version < "3.0" Requires-Dist: soupsieve (>1.2) ; python_version >= "3.0" Provides-Extra: html5lib Requires-Dist: html5lib ; extra == 'html5lib' Provides-Extra: lxml Requires-Dist: lxml ; extra == 'lxml' Beautiful Soup is a library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages. It sits atop an HTML or XML parser, providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. # Quick start ``` >>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup >>> soup = BeautifulSoup("

SomebadHTML") >>> print(soup.prettify())

Some bad HTML

>>> soup.find(text="bad") 'bad' >>> soup.i HTML # >>> soup = BeautifulSoup("SomebadXML", "xml") # >>> print(soup.prettify()) Some bad XML ``` To go beyond the basics, [comprehensive documentation is available](http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/). # Links * [Homepage](http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/) * [Documentation](http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/) * [Discussion group](http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/) * [Development](https://code.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/) * [Bug tracker](https://bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/) * [Complete changelog](https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonardr/beautifulsoup/bs4/view/head:/CHANGELOG) # Note on Python 2 sunsetting Since 2012, Beautiful Soup has been developed as a Python 2 library which is automatically converted to Python 3 code as necessary. This makes it impossible to take advantage of some features of Python 3. For this reason, I plan to discontinue Beautiful Soup's Python 2 support at some point after December 31, 2020: one year after the sunset date for Python 2 itself. Beyond that point, new Beautiful Soup development will exclusively target Python 3. Of course, older releases of Beautiful Soup, which support both versions, will continue to be available. # Supporting the project If you use Beautiful Soup as part of your professional work, please consider a [Tidelift subscription](https://tidelift.com/subscription/pkg/pypi-beautifulsoup4?utm_source=pypi-beautifulsoup4&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme). This will support many of the free software projects your organization depends on, not just Beautiful Soup. If you use Beautiful Soup for personal projects, the best way to say thank you is to read [Tool Safety](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/zine/), a zine I wrote about what Beautiful Soup has taught me about software development. # Building the documentation The bs4/doc/ directory contains full documentation in Sphinx format. Run `make html` in that directory to create HTML documentation. # Running the unit tests Beautiful Soup supports unit test discovery from the project root directory: ``` $ nosetests ``` ``` $ python -m unittest discover -s bs4 ``` If you checked out the source tree, you should see a script in the home directory called test-all-versions. This script will run the unit tests under Python 2, then create a temporary Python 3 conversion of the source and run the unit tests again under Python 3.