Beautifulsoup Scraping
Overview
BeautifulSoup parses raw HTML and XML pages, providing intuitive DOM tree search systems.
When to Use This Skill
Use to parse data out of static web pages or crawled page sources.
Quick Start (with runnable code examples)
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
r = requests.get("https://example.com")
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, "html.parser")
# Find the primary heading element
heading = soup.find("h1").text
print("Heading Text:", heading)
Advanced Usage
Search elements using regex patterns, navigate sibling tag nodes, extract attributes, and clean HTML bodies.
Key References
Dependencies
- beautifulsoup4>=4.12.0, lxml>=4.9.0