Is BeautifulSoup4 safe to use?

BeautifulSoup4 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (4.14.3). DepScope rates its health at 55/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of BeautifulSoup4?

The latest version of BeautifulSoup4 is 4.14.3, released 2025-11-30.

Does BeautifulSoup4 have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of BeautifulSoup4.

Is BeautifulSoup4 deprecated?

No, BeautifulSoup4 is actively maintained. Latest release: 4.14.3 (2025-11-30).

What are alternatives to BeautifulSoup4?

Popular alternatives to BeautifulSoup4 in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, idna, certifi, urllib3.

What license does BeautifulSoup4 use?

BeautifulSoup4 is licensed under MIT License.

BeautifulSoup4

pypiv4.14.3

Screen-scraping library

License MIT Licensepermissive53 versions7 deps

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (55/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (55/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.52high

Download trend

stable(0%)

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Dependencies (7)

soupsieve typing-extensions cchardet;chardet;charset-normalizer;html5lib;lxml;

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