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Beautiful Soup Review & Alternatives (2025)

A popular Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files, ideal for simple, quick parsing tasks.

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Beautiful Soup is a widely-used **Python library** for parsing HTML and XML documents. It creates a parse tree that can be used to extract data easily. While it does not handle the networking (fetching the page), it is the **go-to tool for simple, quick parsing** and is often paired with libraries like Requests or Urllib.

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