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On 26 Jul 2024 22:18:48 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

> I'm not really sure whether a HTML parser
> library would be helpful or just a pointless extra layer of complexity.
> So far I've just used regular expressions for scraping webpages.

I learned about BeautifulSoup early on, and never looked back. I use it 
for all my web-scraping projects nowadays.

By the way, this is the kind of discussion you could not have on a 
platform like Discord. The last time I was on there, the server Ts&Cs had 
prohibitions against talking about web-scraping, since so many websites 
didn’t like it.