Beautiful Soup

Beautiful Soup is a Python library that simplifies the process of scraping data from HTML and XML files. It provides tools to navigate and search through parse trees, making data extraction straightforward.

Key Features

• Simple API for navigating HTML/XML trees
• Supports multiple parsers like lxml and html5lib
• Handles malformed markup gracefully
• Flexible search capabilities with CSS selectors
• Integration with requests for seamless web scraping

Pros

• User-friendly and intuitive for beginners
• Rapidly parse complex documents
• Robust error handling for poor markup
• Active community and extensive documentation

Cons

• Performance may lag with very large documents
• Limited built-in functionalities for data export
• Learning curve for advanced features
• Not ideal for real-time data scraping needs