= Introduction =
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup("<p>Some<b>bad<i>HTML")
>>> print soup.prettify()
<html>
<body>
<p>
Some
<b>
bad
<i>
HTML
</i>
</b>
</p>
</body>
</html>
>>> soup.find(text="bad")
u'bad'
>>> soup.i
<i>HTML</i>
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup("<tag1>Some<tag2/>bad<tag3>XML", "xml")
>>> print soup.prettify()
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">
<tag1>
Some
<tag2 />
bad
<tag3>
XML
</tag3>
</tag1>
= Full documentation =
The bs4/doc/ directory contains full documentation in Sphinx
format. Run "make html" in that directory to create HTML
documentation.
= Running the unit tests =
Beautiful Soup supports unit test discovery from the project root directory:
$ nosetests
$ python -m unittest discover -s bs4 # Python 2.7 and up
If you checked out the source tree, you should see a script in the
home directory called test-all-versions. This script will run the unit
tests under Python 2.7, then create a temporary Python 3 conversion of
the source and run the unit tests again under Python 3.
= Links =
Homepage: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/
Documentation: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
http://readthedocs.org/docs/beautiful-soup-4/
Discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/
Development: https://code.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/
Bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/
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