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Is Beautiful soup slow?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 5, 2024

Beautiful Soup is a popular Python library for web scraping. It can be optimized for faster scraping by using appropriate parsers, parsing only necessary data, caching, and performance profiling.

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