{"id":33,"date":"2015-04-01T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T11:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buklijas.info\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2016-08-16T16:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T16:08:50","slug":"getting-started-with-beautiful-soup-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buklijas.info\/blog\/2015\/04\/01\/getting-started-with-beautiful-soup-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Getting Started with Beautiful Soup&#8221;, book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Published on:<\/strong>  01.04.2015<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/buklijas.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Getting_Started_with_Beautiful_Soup-Book_Cover.jpg?resize=406%2C500\" alt=\"Getting_Started_with_Beautiful_Soup-Book_Cover\" width=\"406\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-88\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Number of pages: 130<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Vineeth G. Nair<br \/>\nPublish by:\u00a0PACKT Publishing<\/p>\n<p>I have been using\u00a0<a title=\"Beautiful Soup web page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crummy.com\/software\/BeautifulSoup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beautiful Soup<\/a>\u00a0at least for last 3 years for web scraping.<br \/>\nI learned it by practice\u00a0and reading <a title=\"Beautiful Soap documentation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crummy.com\/software\/BeautifulSoup\/bs4\/doc\/\" target=\"_blank\">documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know this is first book about\u00a0Beautiful Soup, so I was really excite to read\u00a0it.<br \/>\nI prefer learning from book, tutorial as second choice,\u00a0last choice is from documentation.<\/p>\n<p>Form somebody who\u00a0is starting to use\u00a0Beautiful Soup I would recommend this book, even somebody who had used\u00a0Beautiful Soup (like myself) can find value in it.<\/p>\n<p>What I have learned from &#8220;Getting Started with Beautiful Soup\u201d book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beautiful Soup can be used to change the content of an HTML\/XML document.<\/li>\n<li>how to set input encoding for\u00a0Beautiful Soup document<\/li>\n<li>default output encoding for .prettif() and .encode() is UTF-8, but it can be changed also.<\/li>\n<li>different formatters (minimal,\u00a0html ,\u00a0None ,\u00a0function) can be passed as parameters to\u00a0prettify(), encode(), and decode()<\/li>\n<li>get_text() return all text from page (including JavaScript)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on: 01.04.2015 Number of pages: 130 Written by:\u00a0Vineeth G. Nair Publish by:\u00a0PACKT Publishing I have been using\u00a0Beautiful Soup\u00a0at least for last 3 years for web scraping. I learned it by practice\u00a0and reading documentation. As far as I know this is first book about\u00a0Beautiful Soup, so I was really excite to read\u00a0it. 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