Beautiful Soup is now part of the Tidelift Subscription

Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating, searching, and modifying the parse tree and can save programmers hours or days of work.

With over 24,000 open source repositories depending on it, the beautifulsoup4 packages is one of the most widely used in the Python ecosystem. In fact, by dependent repositories count, beautifulsoup4 is within the top 40 of the greater than 171,000 packages distributed through PyPI. It is also one of the most downloaded packages in the Python ecosystem, with over 18 million downloads in the last year alone.

Leonard Richardson will be providing assurances for Beautiful Soup as part of the Tidelift Subscription.

You can learn more about Beautiful Soup by visiting the project site.

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