Basic uses of BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup is a Python library used for web scraping and parsing HTML or XML documents. It helps in extracting data from web pages by parsing HTML, navigating the DOM, extracting specific elements or data, and modifying HTML. It can handle malformed HTML and is often used in web scraping tasks to retrieve and extract data from websites.

Beautiful Soup is a Python package for parsing HTML and XML documents (including having malformed markup, i.e. non-closed tags, so named after tag soup). It creates a parse tree for parsed pages that can be used to extract data from HTML, which is useful for web scraping.