> Features: Excellent HTML/XML parser, easy web scraping interface, flexible navigation and search.
It does not feature any parser. It’s basically a wrapper over lxml.
>lxml
> Features: Very fast XML and HTML parser.
It’s fast, but there are alternatives that are literally 5x faster.
This article is just another rewrite of a basic introduction. It’s not a guide, since it does mot describe any issues that you face in practice.
Most of the time it won't even register on the scale, compared to the time spent sending/receiving requests and data.
What alternatives are 5x faster?
lxml even has a module for using beautifulsoup's parser.
> lxml can make use of BeautifulSoup as a parser backend
https://lxml.de/elementsoup.html
> A very nice feature of BeautifulSoup is its excellent support for encoding detection which can provide better results for real-world HTML pages that do not (correctly) declare their encoding.