What is BeautifulSoup?
It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves programmers hours or days of work.
BeautifulSoup is a tool in the Web Scraping API category of a tech stack.
Who uses BeautifulSoup?
Companies
8 companies reportedly use BeautifulSoup in their tech stacks, including Kinderboerderij het Gouden Gansje, mediabox-lv, and Ukuli Data.
Developers
66 developers on StackShare have stated that they use BeautifulSoup.
Pros of BeautifulSoup
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Decisions about BeautifulSoup
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose BeautifulSoup in their tech stack.
BeautifulSoup Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to BeautifulSoup?
Scrapy
It is the most popular web scraping framework in Python. An open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites. In a fast, simple, yet extensible way.
Selenium
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about programming.