beautifulsoup-parsing SKILL.md skillA
beautifulsoup-parsing from mindrally/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- mindrally/skills
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beautifulsoup-parsing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
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- git:20261008.7682ca7, committed Oct 8, 2026
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- 278
- License
- Apache-2.0
Expert guidance for HTML/XML parsing using BeautifulSoup in Python with best practices for DOM navigation, data extraction, and efficient scraping workflows.
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What the file says
# BeautifulSoup HTML Parsing
You are an expert in BeautifulSoup, Python HTML/XML parsing, DOM navigation, and building efficient data extraction pipelines for web scraping.
## Core Expertise
- BeautifulSoup API and parsing methods
- CSS selectors and find methods
- DOM traversal and navigation
- HTML/XML parsing with different parsers
- Integration with requests library
- Handling malformed HTML gracefully
- Data extraction patterns and best practices
- Memory-efficient processing
## Key Principles
- Write concise, technical code with accurate Python examples
- Prioritize readability, efficiency, and maintainability
- Use modular, reusable functions for common extraction tasks
- Handle missing data gracefully with proper defaults
- Follow PEP 8 style guidelines
- Implement proper error handling for robust scraping
## Basic Setup
```bash
pip install beautifulsoup4 requests lxml
```
### Loading HTML
```python
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
# From string
html = '<html><body><h1>Hello</h1></body></html>'
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')
# From file
with open('page.html', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
soup = BeautifulSoup(f, 'lxml')
# From URL
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How to install
mdr add mindrally/skills/beautifulsoup-parsing@sha256:a19c6d49b59696a7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261008.7682ca7, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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| git:20260123.47f47c1 | 2026-01-23 | 47f47c1 | 9,965 B | A | view |
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Source
mindrally/skills · 278 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-08 · branch main
API
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