---
id: bs4
version: "0.0.2"
license: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: dormant
---

# bs4 — Dummy package for Beautiful Soup (beautifulsoup4)

License: permissive · Maintenance: dormant · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install bs4
uv add bs4
poetry add bs4

## Description

This is a dummy package designed to prevent namesquatting on PyPI. You should install `beautifulsoup4 <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4>`_ instead.

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

A placeholder package that redirects users to install beautifulsoup4 instead, preventing name squatting on PyPI.

Verdict: This is a legitimate but inactive dummy package—do not install it directly. It exists only to prevent squatting and will pull in beautifulsoup4 as its sole dependency. Install beautifulsoup4 directly instead for the actual HTML/XML parsing functionality.

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