Summary

In this chapter, we covered the various options to install Beautiful Soup in Linux machines. We also discussed a way of installing Beautiful Soup in Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X using the Python setup.py script itself. We also discussed the method to use Beautiful Soup without even installing it. The verification of the Beautiful Soup installation was also covered.

In the next chapter, we are going to have a first look at Beautiful Soup by learning the different methods of converting HTML/XML content to different Beautiful Soup objects and thereby understanding the properties of Beautiful Soup.

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