Comments on: Parse HTML file with BeautifulSoup

By: tats march

tats march — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:53:50 +0000

I like your post you have done a great job and i agree with you that BeautifulSoup is preferred for its simplicity and convenient API and the features you have writen in that are great.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:54:59 +0000

Nice article. Thanks. :) Eugene

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:01:08 +0000

The “Soup” is presumably because HTML is frequently referred to as “tag soup”.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:50:22 +0000

Yes, BeautifulSoup is wonderful module if you have to do with HTML parsing on the Web. But you can do the same with the power of lxml, so why you need to use both in your script?

By: masklinn

masklinn — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:30:35 +0000

> Why BeautifulSoup?

Because it makes tagsoups beautiful