This article is about installing Beautifulsoup. It is a Python library, which can scrape webpages and parse the HTML code.

Please check the prerequisites before starting.

• python
• pip

You can install Beautifulsoup by following these steps:

1. open the command line and run the pip install command

pip install beautifulsoup4

2. Test Beatifulsoup by testing the following script in the python interpreter

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html_doc = """
<div><h1>quick start beautifulsoup :)</h1></div>
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(html_doc, 'html.parser')

print(soup.prettify())

you’ll see the HTML tag element has been formatted beautifully