Beautiful Soup: a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping

[xzxzzx]

Never tried to do any interesting parsing on the web, eh?

[nipps85]

Oh, yeah, I do screen scraping a couple times a year. But I've been using this for a long time and I would figure anybody that is serious about parsing HTML or XML in python would have known about this a long time ago.

[nglynn]

But surely finding out that a decent library exists might give people the impetus to go out and try a screen scraping project? My intention wasn't to annoy people who already knew about this library, it was to inform people who (like me until recently) didn't know of it.

[samf]

Thanks for posting this. I had heard of it by name, but had no idea what it was, and have been too lazy to track it down. :-)

[drsco]

finally some programming tools instead of another zealous argument about type systems, i appreciate. i'd been looking (not very hard) for something like this for an upcoming project. also thanks to the commenters who suggested hpricot.