Beautiful Soup is a Python library using which you can scrape data from various webpages online. Although Python has another vast and better framework called the Scrapy for web-data scraping purposes but Beautiful Soup is a very light-weight library and does the job quickly.

You can install Beautiful Soup using following two commands:

Some sample outputs...

pip install beautifulsoup4
easy_install beautifulsoup4

[email protected]:~# pip install beautifulsoup4
Downloading/unpacking beautifulsoup4
  Downloading beautifulsoup4-4.3.1.tar.gz (142Kb): 142Kb downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package beautifulsoup4

Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4
  Running setup.py install for beautifulsoup4

Successfully installed beautifulsoup4
Cleaning up...
[email protected]:~#

Some more sample outputs...

[email protected] [/home/d]# easy_install beautifulsoup4
Searching for beautifulsoup4
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/beautifulsoup4/
Best match: beautifulsoup4 4.3.1
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/beautifulsoup4/beautifulsoup4-4.3.1.tar.gz#md5=508095f2784c64114e06856edc1dafed
Processing beautifulsoup4-4.3.1.tar.gz
Running beautifulsoup4-4.3.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-gMGxK0/beautifulsoup4-4.3.1/egg-dist-tmp-0kAJy4
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
Adding beautifulsoup4 4.3.1 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/beautifulsoup4-4.3.1-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for beautifulsoup4
Finished processing dependencies for beautifulsoup4
[email protected] [/home/d]#

Web Data Extraction / scraping from public websites is common but you should always evaluate the legality of any scraping before you do so.

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