{"id":1078,"hash":"f18ccbf50a5d14ce9c702014bbdd11731ae408052cd8ff37815e7edbde351b29","pattern":"How to get rid of BeautifulSoup user warning?","full_message":"After I installed BeautifulSoup, whenever I run my Python in from the command line, this warning comes out:\n\nD:\\Application\\python\\lib\\site-packages\\beautifulsoup4-4.4.1-py3.4.egg\\bs4\\__init__.py:166:\nUserWarning: No parser was explicitly specified, so I'm using the best \navailable HTML parser for this system (\"html.parser\"). This usually isn't a\nproblem, but if you run this code on another system, or in a different\nvirtual environment, it may use a different parser and behave differently.\n\nTo get rid of this warning, change this:\n\n BeautifulSoup([your markup])\n\nto this:\n\n BeautifulSoup([your markup], \"html.parser\")\n\nI have no idea why it comes out and how to solve it.","ecosystem":"pypi","package_name":"beautifulsoup","package_version":null,"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.\n\nBeautifulSoup( ... )\n\nIn order to fix the error, you'll need to specify which parser you'd like to use, like so:\n\nBeautifulSoup( ..., \"html.parser\" )\n\nYou can also install a 3rd party parser if you'd like.","confidence":0.95,"source":"stackoverflow","source_url":"https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33511544/how-to-get-rid-of-beautifulsoup-user-warning","votes":79,"created_at":"2026-04-19T04:52:18.512224+00:00","updated_at":"2026-04-19T04:52:18.512224+00:00"}