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Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. 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 without writing excess code for an application. It doesn't take much code to write an application using Beautiful Soup. Getting Started with Beautiful Soup is a practical guide to Beautiful Soup using Python. The book starts by walking you through the installation of each and every feature of Beautiful Soup using simple examples which include sample Python codes as well as diagrams and screenshots wherever required for better understanding. The book discusses the problems of how exactly you can get data out of a website and provides an easy solution with the help of a real website and sample code. Getting Started with Beautiful Soup goes over the different methods to install Beautiful Soup in both Linux and Windows systems. You will then learn about searching, navigating, content modification, encoding support, and output formatting with the help of examples and sample Python codes for each example so that you can try them out to get a better understanding. This book is a practical guide for scraping information from any website. If you want to learn how to efficiently scrape pages from websites, then this book is for you.

Who is this book for?

If you are a budding forensic analyst, consultant, engineer, or a forensic professional wanting to expand your skillset, this is the book for you. The book will also be beneficial to those with an interest in mobile forensics or wanting to find data lost on mobile devices. It will be helpful to be familiar with forensics in general but no prior experience is required to follow this book.

What you will learn

Learn how to scrape HTML pages from websites

Implement a simple method to scrape any website with the help of developer tools, the Python urllib2 module, and Beautiful Soup

Learn how to search for information within an HTML/XML page

Modify the contents of an HTML tree

Understand encoding support in Beautiful Soup

Learn about the different types of output formatting

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Lance Hermes Jul 03, 2015

This is a good introduction to a difficult subject. I have to give the author credit for writing this as the shelf life is likely not that long. Hopefully, he will update it as Python evolves.

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Victor Taylor Jan 25, 2016

Exceeded all expectations.

Doug Duncan Feb 20, 2014

Getting Started with Beautiful Soup by Vineeth G. Nair is a book that was easy to read and fun to follow along with.The book basically has four parts to it. The first part covers chapters 1 and 2 where you install Beautiful Soup and learn how to create objects. The second part covers chapters 3, 4 and 5 where you learn about searching through, navigating over and modifying the contents of the object. The third part covers chapters 6 and 7 where you learn about encoding and output formatters. The final part is chapter 8 where you use all the techniques you've learned in the earlier chapters to build a web scraper that gets price information on Packt Pub books from the publisher itself, Amazon and Barnes & Noble.The book is well written and is recommended to anyone who wants to learn how to work with Beautiful Soup.

Arkantos Mar 14, 2014

I was asked to review a book on Python's web-scraping tool beautiful soup. The book is quite well packaged and organized in terms of content. Assumes no prior knowledge of web scraping. Starts off with simple, easy to follow instructions on how to install beautiful soup, followed by creating beautiful soup objects and proceeds to introducing many features like searching and navigation within a webpage. the final chapter on creating a web scraper is quite informative for the end user.I particularly like the quick reference part, works like a bsoup doc. Overall this book is decent and if you have not worked on python at all and no idea about web scraping and want to learn the same, then this book is for you. Not to forget there is an API doc available for beautiful soup that would be helpful too.

Merryl Feb 25, 2014

I was quite impressed with the details given in this book.The context is well defined and clear. Most of the key topics are taken care of.Any professional or novice could do good by reading this book on web scraping.Being a regular user of BeautifulSoup library, I found that this book encompasses everything that I had to learn from scratch and would have saved me a lot of time, had I had this book when I was studying the BeautifulSoup.I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who would be interested to get into web scraping.

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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