[FIXED] How to get rid of BeautifulSoup user warning?

Issue

After I installed BeautifulSoup, whenever I run my Python in from the command line, this warning comes out:

D:\Application\python\lib\site-packages\beautifulsoup4-4.4.1-py3.4.egg\bs4\__init__.py:166:
UserWarning: No parser was explicitly specified, so I'm using the best 
available HTML parser for this system ("html.parser"). This usually isn't a
problem, but if you run this code on another system, or in a different
virtual environment, it may use a different parser and behave differently.

To get rid of this warning, change this:

 BeautifulSoup([your markup])

to this:

 BeautifulSoup([your markup], "html.parser")

I have no idea why it comes out and how to solve it.

Solution

The solution to your problem is clearly stated in the error message. Code like the below does not specify an XML/HTML/etc. parser.

BeautifulSoup( ... )

In order to fix the error, you'll need to specify which parser you'd like to use, like so:

BeautifulSoup( ..., "html.parser" )

You can also install a 3rd party parser if you'd like.

Answered By - Ethan Bierlein