Beautiful Soup – Encoding All HTML or XML documents are written in some specific encoding, such as ASCII or UTF-8. However, when you load the HTML/XML document into Beautiful Soup, it is converted to Unicode. >>> markup = "<p>I will…
Beautiful Soup – Types of Objects When we pass an html document or string to the beautifulsoup constructor, beautifulsoup essentially transforms a complex html page into different html data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=”1″ href=”https://geek-docs.com/python/python-top-tutorials/1000100_python_index.html” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank” title=”Python Tutorial”>python objects. Below we’ll discuss four main…
Beautiful Soup – Troubleshooting Error Handling In Beautiful Soup, there are two main types of errors that need to be handled. These errors don’t originate from your script, but rather from the structure of the snippet, which results in the…
Beautiful Soup – Modifying the Tree A key aspect of Beautiful Soup is searching the parse tree, which allows you to modify web documents to your specifications. We can modify tags using their attributes, such as the .name, .string, or…
Beautiful Soup – Adding Soup to Your Page In the previous code example, we used string methods to parse the document using the beautiful constructor. Another approach is to pass the document via the open filehandle. from bs4 import BeautifulSoup…
Beautiful Soup – Installation Since Beautiful Soup isn’t a standard Python library, we need to install it first. We will install the latest Beautiful Soup 4 library (also known as BS4). To isolate our workspace so as not to interfere…
Beautiful Soup – Beautiful Objects The starting point of any Beautiful Soup project is the Beautiful Soup object. A Beautiful Soup object represents the input HTML/XML document used to create it. We can pass Beautiful Soup a string or a…
Beautiful Soup – Navigating by Tag In this chapter, we’ll discuss navigating by tag. Here is our HTML document – >>> html_doc = """ <html><head><title>Tutorials Point</title></head> <body> <p class="title"><b>The Biggest Online Tutorials Library, It's all Free</b></p> <p class="prog">Top 5 most…
Beautiful Soup – Overview In today’s world, we have a vast amount of unstructured data/information (primarily web data) freely available. Sometimes, this freely available data is easy to read, and sometimes it’s not. Regardless of how your data is obtained,…
Beautiful Soup Tutorial In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use Beautiful Soup 4 to scrape the web in Python to retrieve data in HTML, XML, and other markup languages. In this tutorial, we’ll experiment with scraping web pages…