I'm Leonard Richardson and I approve this parser. I raised it from a pup, creating it because I was sick of writing one-off parsers for screen-scraping. Since then, I've modified Beautiful Soup in response to many patches, suggestions, and demands. It's only proper that I should publicly expose the most pugnacious patchers, suggesters, and demanders by putting their names on this roll of honor.

The Beautiful People

The following people have contributed patches to Beautiful Soup:

• Istvan Albert (iua1 at psu dot edu)
• Andrew Lin
• Anthony Baxter (anthony at interlink dot com dot au)
• Andrew Boyko (aboy at loc dot gov)
• Tony Chang
• Jonathan Ellis (jonathan at carnageblender dot com) [Jonathan was also awarded the prestigous Beau Potage D'Or for his work in solving the nestable tags conundrum.]
• Fuzzy (mike at pcblokes dot com)
• Roman Gaufman (hackeron at gmail dot com)
• Yoni Gilad (yonigilad at gmail dot com)
• Richie Hindle (richie at entrian dot com)
• "Jon"
• Kent Johnson (kent37 at tds dot net)
• Peteris Krumins
• Ben Last
• Ksenia Marasanova (ksenia at ksenia dot nl)
• JP Moins (jp dot moins at laposte dot net)
• Adam Monsen
• Ed Oskiewicz (eduqate at gmail dot com)
• Greg Phillips
• Mark Pilgrim (actually, I just stole his code)
• Sam Ruby
• Marko Samastur
• Jouni Seppänen
• Alexander Schmolck (a dot schmolck at gmx dot net)
• Glyn Webster (glyn at wave co nz)
• Paul Wright
• Danny Yoo
• Staffan Malmgren (staffan at tomtebo dot org)
• Andy Theyers (andy at isotoma dot com)

The following people made suggestions or found bugs or found ways to break Beautiful Soup:

• Matteo Bertini (matteo at naufraghi dot net)
• Chris Curvey (ccurvey at gmail dot com)
• Simon Cusack (scusack at fastmail dot com dot au)
• Matt Ernst (mernst at tricity dot wsu dot edu)
• Michael Foord
• Tom Harris (beacybooks at bigpond dot com)
• Bill de hOra (bill dot dehora at propylon dot com)
• Donald Howes (dhowes2002 at yahoo dot com)
• Matt Patterson
• Scott Roberts (scot dot roberts at five dot tv)
• Steve Strassmann (steve at strassmann dot com)
• Mike Williams (mikew12345 at cox dot net)
• warchild at redho dot com (warchild at redho dot com)
• Sami Kuisma (sami dot kuisma at ixcelligent dot com)
• Carlos Rocha (rocha at media dot mit dot edu)
• Bob Hutchison (hutch at recursive dot ca)
• Michal Migurski (mike at teczno dot com)
• John Kleven (jkleven at alumni dot calpoly dot edu)
• Tim Heaney (theaney at cablespeed dot com)
• Tripp Lilley (tripp at tripplilley dot com)
• Ed Summers (ehs at pobox dot com)
• Dennis Sutch (dennis at sutch dot com)
• Chris Smith (smiles at worksmail dot net)
• Aaron Sweep Swartz
• Stuart Turner (turnerst at family dash zone dot co dot uk)
• Greg Edwards (gedwards1 at eyetools dot com)
• Kevin J Kalupson (kjk137 at psu dot edu)
• Nikos Kouremenos (kourem at gmail dot com)
• Artur de Sousa Rocha (adsr at poczta dot onet dot pl)
• Yichun Wei (yichunwe at usc dot edu)
• Per Vognsen (per dot vognsen at gmail dot com)

Possibly others I've forgotten.

A big part of Beautiful Soup's encoding detection code was originally written by Mark Pilgrim as part of the Universal Feed Parser.