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A Python HTML/XML parser for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping.
1. Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need and run away.
2. 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. You don't have to create a custom parser for each application.
3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings, unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup can't autodetect one.
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has a well established, mature codebase
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took an estimated 5 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in March, 2009
ending with its most recent commit 6 days ago
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