# Beautiful Soup

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/beautiful-soup/  
**Website:** https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files, widely used for web scraping and screen scraping tasks. It provides a parse tree API with simple methods for navigating, searching, and modifying parsed HTML/XML documents. Beautiful Soup automatically handles encoding, supports multiple parsers (html.parser, lxml, html5lib), and integrates with CSS selectors via the Soup Sieve library. Current stable version is 4.14.3.

## Kin Score — 13.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Beautiful Soup** — Beautiful Soup 4 is a Python library providing a parse tree API for HTML and XML documents. It exposes Tag, NavigableString, BeautifulSoup, and Comment objects with navigation m...

## Security (1)

- **Beautiful Soup Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Beautiful Soup Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Web Scraping** — Extract data from websites by parsing HTML pages with Beautiful Soup and navigating the DOM tree to find target elements.
- **Data Mining** — Mine structured data from HTML tables, lists, and other markup patterns across large numbers of web pages.
- **Content Extraction** — Extract article text, product information, or other content from web pages for NLP pipelines and data analysis.
- **Screen Scraping Legacy Systems** — Automate data extraction from legacy HTML web interfaces that lack modern APIs.
- **HTML Sanitization** — Parse and clean HTML documents by removing unwanted tags, scripts, and formatting.
- **XML Processing** — Parse and query XML documents using Beautiful Soup's tree navigation and search capabilities.

## Tags

Data Extraction, HTML Parsing, Python, Scraping, Web Scraping, XML Parsing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/beautiful-soup/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.