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BeautifulSoup

A Python-based parsing library used in RAG ETL pipelines to extract clean text from raw HTML/XML by stripping boilerplate; while highly flexible for data cleaning, it lacks native concurrency and requires specific parsers (like lxml) for performance at scale.

Definition

A Python-based parsing library used in RAG ETL pipelines to extract clean text from raw HTML/XML by stripping boilerplate; while highly flexible for data cleaning, it lacks native concurrency and requires specific parsers (like lxml) for performance at scale.

Disambiguation

It is a document parser for content already fetched, not a web crawler or HTTP requester.

Visual Metaphor

"A vegetable peeler removing the inedible skin (HTML tags) to reach the nutritious fruit (raw text content)."

Key Tools
LangChain (WebBaseLoader)LlamaIndexRequestslxmlPlaywright
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Conceptual Overview

A Python-based parsing library used in RAG ETL pipelines to extract clean text from raw HTML/XML by stripping boilerplate; while highly flexible for data cleaning, it lacks native concurrency and requires specific parsers (like lxml) for performance at scale.

Disambiguation

It is a document parser for content already fetched, not a web crawler or HTTP requester.

Visual Analog

A vegetable peeler removing the inedible skin (HTML tags) to reach the nutritious fruit (raw text content).

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