Beautiful Soup API Manual

Function

• Beautiful Soup
• Getting help
• Quick Start
• Installing Beautiful Soup
• Problems after installation
• Installing a parser
• Making the soup
• Kinds of objects
• Tag
• Name
• Attributes
• Multi-valued attributes
• NavigableString
• BeautifulSoup
• Comments and other special strings
• Navigating the tree
• Going down
• Navigating using tag names
• .contents and .children
• .descendants
• .string
• .strings and stripped_strings
• Going up
• .parent
• .parents
• Going sideways
• .next_sibling and .previous_sibling
• .next_siblings and .previous_siblings
• Going back and forth
• .next_element and .previous_element
• .next_elements and .previous_elements
• Searching the tree
• Kinds of filters
• A string
• A regular expression
• A list
• True
• A function
• find_all()
• The name argument
• The keyword arguments
• Searching by CSS class
• The text argument
• The limit argument
• The recursive argument
• Calling a tag is like calling find_all()
• find()
• find_parents() and find_parent()
• find_next_siblings() and find_next_sibling()
• find_previous_siblings() and find_previous_sibling()
• find_all_next() and find_next()
• find_all_previous() and find_previous()
• CSS selectors
• Modifying the tree
• Changing tag names and attributes
• Modifying .string
• append()
• BeautifulSoup.new_string() and .new_tag()
• insert()
• insert_before() and insert_after()
• clear()
• extract()
• decompose()
• replace_with()
• wrap()
• unwrap()
• Output
• Pretty-printing
• Non-pretty printing
• Output formatters
• get_text()
• Specifying the parser to use
• Differences between parsers
• Encodings
• Output encoding
• Unicode, Dammit
• Smart quotes
• Inconsistent encodings
• Parsing only part of a document
• SoupStrainer
• Troubleshooting
• diagnose()
• Errors when parsing a document
• Version mismatch problems
• Parsing XML
• Other parser problems
• Miscellaneous
• Improving Performance
• Beautiful Soup 3
• Porting code to BS4
• You need a parser
• Method names
• Generators
• XML
• Entities
• Miscellaneous
• Parsing XML
• limit
• **kwargs
• the valueTrue
• Remember
• .next_siblings
• .next_elements
• .stripped_strings
• `
• install lxml orhtml5lib.