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Asked: 2026-05-15T13:29:56+00:00

I’m aggregating content from a few external sources and am finding that some of

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I’m aggregating content from a few external sources and am finding that some of it contains errors in its HTML/DOM. A good example would be HTML missing closing tags or malformed tag attributes. Is there a way to clean up the errors in Python natively or any third party modules I could install?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would suggest Beautifulsoup. It has a wonderful parser that can deal with malformed tags quite gracefully. Once you’ve read in the entire tree you can just output the result.

    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
tree = BeautifulSoup(bad_html)
good_html = tree.prettify()

    I’ve used this many times and it works wonders. If you’re simply pulling out the data from bad-html then BeautifulSoup really shines when it comes to pulling out data.

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