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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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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783289554
Length 130 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vineeth G Nair Vineeth G Nair
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Chapter 3. Search Using Beautiful Soup

We saw the creation of the BeautifulSoup object and other objects, such as Tag and NavigableString in Chapter 2, Creating a BeautifulSoup Object. The HTML/XML document is converted to these objects for the ease of searching and navigating within the document.

In this chapter, we will learn the different searching methods provided by Beautiful Soup to search based on tag name, attribute values of tag, text within the document, regular expression, and so on. At the end, we will make use of these searching methods to scrape data from an online web page.

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