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BeautifulSoup vs requests: What are the differences?

BeautifulSoup: Screen-scraping library. Screen-scraping library; requests: Python HTTP for Humans. Python HTTP for Humans.

BeautifulSoup and requests can be primarily classified as "PyPI Packages" tools.

requests is an open source tool with 45.3K GitHub stars and 8.29K GitHub forks. Here's a link to requests's open source repository on GitHub.

BeautifulSoup Stats
  • Dependent Packages Counts - 44
requests Stats
  • Dependent Packages Counts - 10.7K
BeautifulSoup Vulnerabilities
No Vulnerabilities found
requests Vulnerabilities
  • Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Requests
    High
  • Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Requests
    Moderate
  • Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Requests
    Moderate
BeautifulSoup Release info
Latest version
3.2.2
MIT
requests Release info
Latest version
2.28.2
Apache-2.0
- No public GitHub repository available -

What is BeautifulSoup?

Screen-scraping library.

What is requests?

Python HTTP for Humans.

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