The Beautiful Soup workbench

The Beautiful Soup app is a Python editor that runs in WebAssembly (Pyodide). When the status line says Beautiful Soup is ready, these names already exist:

• BeautifulSoup — from bs4
• pd — pandas
• np — NumPy

You do not write from bs4 import BeautifulSoup unless you want to.

Run code

Paste into the editor and press Ctrl+Enter (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Enter (macOS). The console is stdout.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html = "<p>Nairobi</p>"
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
print(soup.p.get_text())

Always "html.parser"

html = "<h1>Kisumu kiosk</h1>"
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
print(soup.h1)
print(type(soup.h1))

This editor does not ship lxml. html.parser is the Python standard-library parser and is enough for every chapter.

Files live in /uploads

Click Add files and choose an HTML file. After that:

import os

print(os.listdir("/uploads"))

Readable paths: kiosk.html or /uploads/kiosk.html.

with open("kiosk.html") as f:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(f.read(), "html.parser")
print(soup.title.get_text())

Privacy

Python runs in this tab. Uploads live in IndexedDB on this device. Lesson pages are public HTML; they never see your files.