External Resources

External libraries

• 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

• MechanicalSoup tag on stackoverflow
• MechanicalSoup on Gitter
• News archive:
  • opensource.com blog
  • Hacker News post
  • Reddit discussion

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
• gmusicapi: an unofficial API for Google Play Music
• PatZilla: Patent information research for humans
• TODO: Add your favorite tool here …