BeautifulSoup for online IDE?

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This guide says that to extract some information from a website using requests and Beautiful soup we can use the method BeautifulSoup(request, ‘html5lib’), but it states that it will not run on an online IDE. I was wondering why that is and if there is any workaround, if one is using an online IDE. Is there a different HTML parser?

This works online perfectly nowadays – Joshua Varghese Apr 05 '20 at 17:32 — Joshua Varghese, Apr 05 '20 at 17:32

Joshua Varghese · Answer 1 · 2020-04-05T17:40:30.300

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This is now (UPDATED) possible via Online Idle at Repl.it , Rextester. This was not possible earlier since some of the online compilers couldn't have one of those (requests, beautifulsoup, html2lib) libraries within them.

edited Apr 05 '20 at 17:40

answered Apr 05 '20 at 17:33

Joshua Varghese

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if this answers your question, mark this as the answer so that the question is closed – Joshua Varghese Apr 06 '20 at 04:46

BeautifulSoup for online IDE?

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