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+Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround
+projects like screen-scraping. Three features make it powerful:
+
+ 1. Beautiful Soup won't choke if you give it bad markup. It yields a
+ parse tree that makes approximately as much sense as your original
+ document. This is usually good enough to collect the data you need
+ and run away.
+
+ 2. 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. You don't have to
+ create a custom parser for each application.
+
+ 3. Beautiful Soup automatically converts incoming documents to Unicode and
+ outgoing documents to UTF-8. You don't have to think about encodings,
+ unless the document doesn't specify an encoding and Beautiful Soup can't
+ autodetect one. Then you just have to specify the original encoding.
+
+Beautiful Soup parses anything you give it, and does the tree traversal
+stuff for you. You can tell it "Find all the links", or "Find all the links
+of class externalLink", or "Find all the links whose urls match "foo.com",
+or "Find the table heading that's got bold text, then give me that text."
+
+Valuable data that was once locked up in poorly-designed websites is now
+within your reach. Projects that would have taken hours take only minutes
+with Beautiful Soup.