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diff --git a/libraries/BeautifulSoup4/README b/libraries/BeautifulSoup4/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..41925ef89e --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/BeautifulSoup4/README @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround +projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful: + +1. Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a +parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original +document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need +and run away. + +2. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for +navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for +dissecting a document and extracting what you need. You don't have to +create a custom parser for each application. + +3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and +outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings, +unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup +can't autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original +encoding. + +Beautiful Soup parses anything you give it, and does the tree traversal +stuff for you. You can tell it "Find all the links", or "Find all the links +of class externalLink", or "Find all the links whose urls match "foo.com", +or "Find the table heading that's got bold text, then give me that text." + +Valuable data that was once locked up in poorly-designed websites is now +within your reach. Projects that would have taken hours take only minutes +with Beautiful Soup. |