Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in Mark Pilgrim

Who wrote BeautifulSoup?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 5, 2024

The Origins of BeautifulSoup: Mark Pilgrim's Powerful Web Scraping Library. Created in 2004, BeautifulSoup is a popular and powerful library for web scraping and handling HTML/XML in Python.

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