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Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

You're reading from   Getting Started with Beautiful Soup Learn how to extract information from websites using Beautiful Soup and the Python urllib2 module. This practical, hands-on guide covers everything you need to know to get a head start in website scraping.

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Vineeth G. Nair completed his bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Model Engineering College, Cochin, Kerala. He is currently working with Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. as a Senior Applications Engineer. He developed an interest in Python during his college days and began working as a freelance programmer. This led him to work on several web scraping projects using Beautiful Soup. It helped him gain a fair level of mastery on the technology and a good reputation in the freelance arena. He can be reached at vineethgnair.mec@gmail.com. You can visit his website at www.kochi-coders.com.
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Preface 1. Installing Beautiful Soup FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a BeautifulSoup Object 3. Search Using Beautiful Soup 4. Navigation Using Beautiful Soup 5. Modifying Content Using Beautiful Soup 6. Encoding Support in Beautiful Soup 7. Output in Beautiful Soup 8. Creating a Web Scraper Index

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the various options to install Beautiful Soup in Linux machines. We also discussed a way of installing Beautiful Soup in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X using the Python setup.py script itself. We also discussed the method to use Beautiful Soup without even installing it. The verification of the Beautiful Soup installation was also covered.

In the next chapter, we are going to have a first look at Beautiful Soup by learning the different methods of converting HTML/XML content to different Beautiful Soup objects and thereby understanding the properties of Beautiful Soup.

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Vineeth G. Nair completed his bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from Model Engineering College, Cochin, Kerala. He is currently working with Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. as a Senior Applications Engineer. He developed an interest in Python during his college days and began working as a freelance programmer. This led him to work on several web scraping projects using Beautiful Soup. It helped him gain a fair level of mastery on the technology and a good reputation in the freelance arena. He can be reached at vineethgnair.mec@gmail.com. You can visit his website at www.kochi-coders.com.
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