Post #961929

2024-02-16 16:33 UTC

This year will be the 20th anniversary of @leonardr&#39;s #Python screen-scraping tool Beautiful Soup. https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/celebrate-beautiful-soups-20th-anniversary/ Please contact me if you&#39;d like to contribute to the celebration by any of: * contributing to a &quot;how Beautiful Soup was important to my life or career&quot; anthology * helping edit and publish that anthology * funding printing the book * throwing or speaking at a party on or around May 19th, 2024 * helping upgrade Leonard&#39;s PyCon travel so it&#39;s not just economy/coach

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@Betty@fandom.ink 2024-02-16 17:47

@brainwane@social.coop @leonardr@botsin.space Beautiful Soup is such a lovely library! I've only used it for hobby projects, but it's my go to for dirty internet data!

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@valrus@icosahedron.website 2024-02-17 02:05

@brainwane@social.coop @leonardr@botsin.space I might be interested in contributing a short piece about a personally meaningful thing I was able to do with Beautiful Soup!

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@pathunstrom@ngmx.com 2024-02-22 03:17

@brainwane@social.coop @leonardr@botsin.space Oh this is brilliant. Congrats to Leonard! I literally have used Beautiful soup for my own purposes all of once, but I've helped a lot of new programmers use it on various projects and I still suggest it to folks who need it.

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@cousinsd@mastodon.nz 2024-02-22 03:51

@brainwane@social.coop @leonardr@botsin.space Oh, goodness. It feels like more than 20 years ago that I first used Beautiful Soup. Surely it was 2001? But no, apparently not. Happy anniversary!

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@epiceneVivant@mas.to 2024-02-24 01:14

LB. Can confirm BeautifulSoup is pretty damn awesome. (As a freelance dev cuiltivating a specialization in web scraping.) I keep a python script in ~/bin/ for pretty-printing HTML via stdin that just calls BeautifulSoup.prettify()

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