BeautifulSoup
Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files; pairs well with requests, lxml, or html.parser.
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Hero Score
Popularity
58
Performance
45
Ecosystem
50
Maturity
85
Dev Experience
75
⬇ 74.7M downloads/wkFirst release: Apr 2004Last release: Nov 2025
Async Support: NoPlugin Extensions: MediumSpeed: FastDoc Quality: HighLearning Curve: Easy
Pros
- • Extremely simple API; great for quick parsing tasks
- • Flexible parser backends (html.parser, lxml, html5lib)
- • Mature, stable, widely-used with tons of examples. Lightweight dependency for notebooks & small scripts
Cons
- • Not a crawler; you manage requests, retries, politeness
- • Slower than specialized parsers for very large docs
- • No built-in concurrency or pipeline system