BeautifulSoup

BeautifulSoup is really excellent. I should have started using it ages ago. In probably less than an hour, I turned my custom-built horrible, fragile, regex monstrosity of a parser into a much more robust and, more importantly, understandable scraper with half as many lines of code.

The lesson, as it often is, is to use the right tool for the job.

Written by Tracy Poff on Tue 15 September 2015.