This recipe, and most of the others in this chapter, will be presented with iPython in an interactive manner. But all of the code for each is available in a script file. The code for this recipe is in 02/01_parsing_html_wtih_bs.py. You can type the following in, or cut and paste from the script file.
Now let's walk through parsing HTML with Beautiful Soup. We start by loading this page into a BeautifulSoup object using the following code, which creates a BeautifulSoup object, loads the content of the page using with requests.get, and loads it into a variable named soup.
In [1]: import requests ...: from bs4 import BeautifulSoup ...: html = requests.get("http://localhost:8080/planets.html").text ...: soup = BeautifulSoup(html, ...
