# Buildsheet autogenerated by ravenadm tool -- Do not edit. NAMEBASE= python-beautifulsoup4 VERSION= 4.13.4 KEYWORDS= python VARIANTS= v12 v13 SDESC[v12]= Screen-scraping library (3.12) SDESC[v13]= Screen-scraping library (3.13) HOMEPAGE= https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/ CONTACT= Python_Automaton[python@ironwolf.systems] DOWNLOAD_GROUPS= main SITES[main]= PYPIWHL/50/cd/30110dc0ffcf3b131156077b90e9f60ed75711223f306da4db08eff8403b DISTFILE[1]= beautifulsoup4-4.13.4-py3-none-any.whl:main DIST_SUBDIR= python-src DF_INDEX= 1 SPKGS[v12]= single SPKGS[v13]= single OPTIONS_AVAILABLE= PY312 PY313 OPTIONS_STANDARD= none VOPTS[v12]= PY312=ON PY313=OFF VOPTS[v13]= PY312=OFF PY313=ON DISTNAME= beautifulsoup4-4.13.4.dist-info GENERATED= yes [PY312].RUN_DEPENDS_ON= python-soupsieve:single:v12 python-typing-extensions:single:v12 [PY312].USES_ON= python:v12,wheel [PY313].RUN_DEPENDS_ON= python-soupsieve:single:v13 python-typing-extensions:single:v13 [PY313].USES_ON= python:v13,wheel [FILE:1891:descriptions/desc.single] 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("<p>Some<b>bad<i>HTML") >>> print(soup.prettify()) <html> <body> <p> Some <b> bad <i> HTML </i> </b> </p> </body> </html> >>> soup.find(string="bad") 'bad' >>> soup.i <i>HTML</i> # >>> soup = BeautifulSoup("<tag1>Some<tag2/>bad<tag3>XML", "xml") # >>> print(soup.prettify()) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <tag1> Some <tag2/> bad <tag3> XML </tag3> </tag1> ``` To go beyond the basics, [comprehensive documentation is available]. # Links * [Homepage] * [Documentation] * [Discussion group] * [Development] * [Bug tracker] * [Complete changelog] # Note on Python 2 sunsetting Beautiful Soup's support for Python 2 was discontinued on December 31, 2020: one year after the sunset date for Python 2 itself. From this point onward, new Beautiful Soup development will exclusively target Python 3. The final release of Beautiful Soup 4 to support Python 2 was 4.9.3. # Supporting the project If you use Beautiful Soup as part of your professional work, please consider a [Tidelift subscription]. 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], 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 using Pytest: ``` $ pytest ``` [FILE:128:distinfo] 9bbbb14bfde9d79f38b8cd5f8c7c85f4b8f2523190ebed90e950a8dea4cb1c4b 187285 python-src/beautifulsoup4-4.13.4-py3-none-any.whl