The best replacement for beautifulsoup is lxml.

The best alternatives to beautifulsoup are rated as following:
★★★★★  lxml
★★★★★  elementtree
★★★  pyquery
★★★  nokogiri
★★  mechanize
★★  regex
★  requests
★  scrapy

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