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Is BeautifulSoup open-source?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 5, 2024

BeautifulSoup is an open-source Python library for web scraping and parsing HTML and XML documents. It is released under a permissive BSD license and depends on other open-source libraries with MIT licenses. This permissive licensing structure allows for commercial usage and has contributed to BeautifulSoup's popularity.

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