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You will need Python Version 2.7.5 or higher and Beautiful Soup Version 4 for this book.

For Chapter 3, Search Using Beautiful Soup and Chapter 8, Creating a Web Scraper, you must have an Internet connection to scrape different websites using the code examples provided.

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