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What is the package name for beautifulsoup in python?


Asked by Luis McCoy on Nov 30, 2021 FAQ



The package name is beautifulsoup4, and the same package works on Python 2 and Python 3. Make sure you use the right version of pip or easy_install for your Python version (these may be named pip3 and easy_install3 respectively if you’re using Python 3). (The BeautifulSoup package is probably not what you want.
In this manner,
Beautiful Soup 4 is published through PyPi, so if you can’t install it with the system packager, you can install it with easy_install or pip. The package name is beautifulsoup4, and the same package works on Python 2 and Python 3.
Indeed, BeautifulSoup object is provided by Beautiful Soup which is a web scraping framework for Python. Web scraping is the process of extracting data from the website using automated tools to make the process faster. The BeautifulSoup object represents the parsed document as a whole. For most purposes, you can treat it as a Tag object.
Keeping this in consideration,
As BeautifulSoup is not a standard python library, we need to install it first. We are going to install the BeautifulSoup 4 library (also known as BS4), which is the latest one. To isolate our working environment so as not to disturb the existing setup, let us first create a virtual environment.
Moreover,
Installing Beautiful Soup. If you run Debian or Ubuntu, you can install Beautiful Soup with the system package manager. apt-get install python-bs4. Beautiful Soup 4 is published through PyPi, so if you can’t install it with the system packager, you can install it with easy_install or pip.