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3.2 (October 2, 2013). You can install it with pip install beautifulsoup4 or easy_install beautifulsoup4. It's also available as the python-beautifulsoup4 package in recent versions of Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. Beautiful Soup 4 works on both Python 2 (2.6+) and Python 3. Beautiful Soup is licensed under the MIT license, so you can also download the tarball, drop the bs4/ directory into almost any Python application (or into your library path) and start using it immediately.

(If you want to do this under Python 3, you will need to manually convert the code using 2to3 .) Beautiful Soup 3 Beautiful Soup 3 was the official release line of Beautiful Soup from May 2006 to March 2012. It is considered stable, and only critical bugs will be fixed. Here's the Beautiful Soup 3 documentation. Beautiful Soup 3 works only under Python 2.x. It is licensed under the same license as Python itself. The current release of Beautiful Soup 3 is 3.

2.1 (February 16, 2012). You can install Beautiful Soup 3 with pip install BeautifulSoup or easy_install BeautifulSoup. It's also available as python-beautifulsoup in Debian and Ubuntu, and as python-BeautifulSoup in Fedora. You can also download the tarball and use BeautifulSoup.py in your project directly. Hall of Fame Over the years, Beautiful Soup has been used in hundreds of different projects. There's no way I can list them all, but I do want to highlight a few high-profile projects.



Beautiful Soup isn't what makes these projects interesting, but it did make their completion easier: "Movable Type". a work of digital art on display in the lobby of the New York Times building, uses Beautiful Soup to scrape news feeds. Reddit uses Beautiful Soup to parse a page that's been linked to and find a representative image. Alexander Harrowell uses Beautiful Soup to track the business activities of an arms merchant. The developers of Python itself used Beautiful Soup to migrate the Python bug tracker from Sourceforge to Roundup.

The Lawrence Journal-World uses Beautiful Soup to gather statewide election results. The NOAA's Forecast Applications Branch uses Beautiful Soup in TopoGrabber. a script for downloading "high resolution USGS datasets." If you've used Beautiful Soup in a project you'd like me to know about, please do send email to me or the discussion group. Development This document (source ) is part of Crummy, the webspace of Leonard Richardson (contact information ).

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