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Beautiful Soup is a powerful library designed for the straightforward extraction of data from web pages. It operates on top of an HTML or XML parser, offering Pythonic conventions for traversing, searching, and altering the parse tree. Support for Python 2 was officially ended on December 31, 2020, precisely one year after Python 2 reached its end of life. Consequently, all new developments for Beautiful Soup will now be exclusively focused on Python 3. The last version of Beautiful Soup 4 that provided support for Python 2 was 4.9.3. Additionally, Beautiful Soup is distributed under the MIT license, allowing users to easily download the tarball, incorporate the bs4/ directory into nearly any Python project or library path, and begin utilizing its capabilities right away. This accessibility ensures that developers can quickly integrate web scraping functionalities into their applications without significant barriers.
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Parsel is a Python library licensed under BSD that facilitates the extraction and removal of data from HTML and XML documents using XPath and CSS selectors, with the option to integrate regular expressions. To begin, you create a selector object for the HTML or XML content you wish to analyze. After that, you can utilize either CSS or XPath expressions to target specific elements. CSS serves as a styling language for HTML, defining selectors that link styles to designated HTML elements, while XPath is utilized for selecting nodes within XML documents and can also be applied to HTML. Although both CSS and XPath can be used, CSS tends to offer greater readability, whereas XPath provides capabilities that may not be achievable through CSS alone. Built on top of lxml, parsel selectors incorporate some EXSLT extensions and come with pre-registered namespaces available for use in XPath queries. Furthermore, parsel selectors allow for the chaining of selectors, enabling users to primarily select by class using CSS and seamlessly transition to XPath when the situation demands it, enhancing flexibility in data extraction tasks. This dual capability makes parsel a powerful tool for developers working with web data.
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Beautiful Soup
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pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/
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pypi.org/project/parsel/