External Resources
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External libraries
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* Requests (HTTP layer): http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/

* BeautifulSoup (HTML parsing and manipulation):
  https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

MechanicalSoup on the web
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* `MechanicalSoup tag on stackoverflow
  <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mechanicalsoup>`__

* `MechanicalSoup on Gitter
  <https://gitter.im/MechanicalSoup/Lobby>`__

* News archive:

  * `opensource.com blog <https://opensource.com/resources/python/web-scraper-crawler>`__
  * `Hacker News post <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8012103>`__
  * `Reddit
    discussion <https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2aa13s/mechanicalsoup_a_python_library_for_automating/>`__

Projects using MechanicalSoup
-----------------------------

These projects use MechanicalSoup for web scraping. You may want to
look at their source code for real-life examples.

* `Chamilo Tools <https://gitlab.com/chamilotools/chamilotools>`__
* `gmusicapi <https://github.com/simon-weber/gmusicapi>`__: an unofficial API
  for Google Play Music
* `PatZilla <https://github.com/ip-tools/ip-navigator>`__: Patent information
  research for humans
* *TODO: Add your favorite tool here ...*