crummy bs4 code example

Example 1: use beautifulsoup

#start


from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

req = requests.get('https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500')
soup = BeautifulSoup(req.text, 'html.parser')

Example 2: beautiful soup 4

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

with open("index.html") as fp:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(fp)

soup = BeautifulSoup("<html>a web page</html>")

Example 3: children beautiful soup

li = soup.find('li', {'class': 'text'})
children = li.findChildren("a" , recursive=False)
for child in children:
    print child