Ian Bicking: a blog :: lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library{ 2008 12 10 } lxml: an underappreciated web scraping library When people think about web scraping in Python, they usually think BeautifulSoup. That’s okay, but I would encourage you to also consider lxml. First, people think BeautifulSoup is better at parsing broken HTML. This is not correct. lxml parses broken HTML quite nicely. I haven’t done any thorough testing, but at least the BeautifulSoup
