= About Beautiful Soup 4 =
Earlier versions of Beautiful Soup included a custom HTML
parser. Beautiful Soup 4 uses Python's default HTMLParser, which does
fairly poorly on real-world HTML. By installing lxml or html5lib you
can get more accurate parsing and possibly better performance as well.
= Introduction =
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup("SomebadHTML")
>>> print soup.prettify()
Some
bad
HTML
>>> soup.find(text="bad")
u'bad'
>>> soup.i
HTML