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Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

By : Vineeth G Nair
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Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

Getting Started with Beautiful Soup

3.5 (11)
By: Vineeth G Nair

Overview of this book

Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need without writing excess code for an application. It doesn't take much code to write an application using Beautiful Soup. Getting Started with Beautiful Soup is a practical guide to Beautiful Soup using Python. The book starts by walking you through the installation of each and every feature of Beautiful Soup using simple examples which include sample Python codes as well as diagrams and screenshots wherever required for better understanding. The book discusses the problems of how exactly you can get data out of a website and provides an easy solution with the help of a real website and sample code. Getting Started with Beautiful Soup goes over the different methods to install Beautiful Soup in both Linux and Windows systems. You will then learn about searching, navigating, content modification, encoding support, and output formatting with the help of examples and sample Python codes for each example so that you can try them out to get a better understanding. This book is a practical guide for scraping information from any website. If you want to learn how to efficiently scrape pages from websites, then this book is for you.
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Chapter 6. Encoding Support in Beautiful Soup

All web pages will have an encoding associated with it. Modern websites have different encodings such as UTF-8, and Latin-1. Nowadays, UTF-8 is the encoding standard used in websites. So, while dealing with the scraping of such pages, it is important that the scraper should also be capable of understanding those encodings. Otherwise, the user will see certain characters in the web browser whereas the result you would get after using a scraper would be gibberish characters. For example, consider a sample web content from Wikipedia where we are able to see the Spanish character ñ.

Encoding Support in Beautiful Soup

If we run the same content through a scraper with no support for the previous encoding used by the website, we might end up with the following content:

The Spanish language is written using the Spanish alphabet, which is the Latin alphabet with one additional letter, e単e (単), for a total of 27 letters.

We see the Spanish character &...

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