Getting started with Beautiful Soup build your own web scraper and learn all about web scraping with Beautiful Soup

Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Installing Beautiful Soup
	Installing Beautiful Soup
		Installing Beautiful Soup in Linux
			Installing Beautiful Soup using package manager
			Installing Beautiful Soup using pip or easy_install
			Installing Beautiful Soup using pip
			Installing Beautiful Soup using easy_install
		Installing Beautiful Soup in Windows
			Verifying Python path in Windows
		Installing Beautiful Soup using setup.py
	Using Beautiful Soup without installation
	Verifying the installation
	Quick reference
	Summary
Chapter 2: Creating a BeautifulSoup Object
	Creating a BeautifulSoup object
		Creating a BeautifulSoup object from a string
		Creating a BeautifulSoup object from a file-like object
		Creating a BeautifulSoup object for XML parsing
			Understanding the features argument
	Tag
		Accessing the Tag object from BeautifulSoup
		Name of the Tag object
		Attributes of a Tag object
	The NavigableString object
	Quick reference
	Summary
Chapter 3: Search Using Beautiful Soup
	Searching in Beautiful Soup
		Searching with find()
			Finding the first producer
			Explaining find()
		Searching with find_all()
			Finding all tertiary consumers
			Understanding parameters used with find_all()
		Searching for Tags in relation
			Searching for the parent tags
			Searching for siblings
			Searching for next
			Searching for previous
	Using search methods to scrape information from a web page
	Quick reference
	Summary
Chapter 4: Navigation Using 
Beautiful Soup
	Navigation using Beautiful Soup
		Navigating down
			Using the name of the child tag
			Using predefined attributes
			Special attributes for navigating down
		Navigating up
			The .parent attribute
			The .parents attribute
		Navigating sideways to the siblings
			The .next_sibling attribute
			The .previous_sibling attribute
		Navigating to the previous and next objects parsed
	Quick reference
	Summary
Chapter 5: Modifying Content Using Beautiful Soup
	Modifying Tag using Beautiful Soup
		Modifying the name property of Tag
		Modifying the attribute values of Tag
			Updating the existing attribute value of Tag
			Adding new attribute values to Tag
		Deleting the tag attributes
		Adding a new tag
	Modifying string contents
		Using .string to modify the string content
		Adding strings using .append(), insert(), and new_string()
	Deleting tags from the HTML document
		Deleting the producer using decompose()
		Deleting the producer using extract()
		Deleting the contents of a tag using Beautiful Soup
	Special functions to modify content
	Quick reference
	Summary
Chapter 6: Encoding Support in 
Beautiful Soup
	Encoding in Beautiful Soup
		Understanding the original encoding of the HTML document
		Specifying the encoding of the HTML document
	Output encoding
	Quick reference
	Summary
Chapter 7: Output in Beautiful Soup
	Formatted printing
	Unformatted printing
	Output formatters in Beautiful Soup
		The minimal formatter
		The html formatter
		The None formatter
		The function formatter
	Using get_text()
	Quick reference
	Summary
Chapter 8: Creating a Web Scraper
	Getting book details from PacktPub.com
		Finding pages with a list of books
		Finding book details
	Getting selling prices from Amazon
	Getting the selling price from Barnes and Noble
	Summary
Index