TITLE Beautiful Soup: The Beautiful People

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<p>I'm <a href="http://www.crummy.com/">Leonard Richardson</a> 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.

<h1>The Beautiful People</h1>

<p>The following people have contributed patches to Beautiful Soup:

<ul>
<li>Istvan Albert (iua1 at psu dot edu)
<li><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/brokenwndw/">Andrew Lin</a>
<li>Anthony Baxter (anthony at interlink dot com dot au)
<li>Andrew Boyko (aboy at loc dot gov)
<li><a href="http://ponderer.org/">Tony Chang</a>
<li>Jonathan Ellis (jonathan at carnageblender dot com) <i>[Jonathan was also
awarded the prestigous <b>Beau Potage D'Or</b> for his work in solving the
nestable tags conundrum.]</i>
<li>Fuzzy (mike at pcblokes dot com)
<li>Roman Gaufman (hackeron at gmail dot com)
<li>Yoni Gilad (yonigilad at gmail dot com)
<li>Richie Hindle (richie at entrian dot com)
<li>Kent Johnson (kent37 at tds dot net)
<li><a href="http://www.hrsys.demon.co.uk/blindex.html">Ben Last</a>
<li>Ksenia Marasanova (ksenia at ksenia dot nl)
<li>JP Moins (jp dot moins at laposte dot net)
<li><a href="http://adammonsen.com/">Adam Monsen</a>
<li>Ed Oskiewicz (eduqate at gmail dot com)
<li><a href="http://phillips.rmc.ca/">Greg Phillips</a>
<li><a href="http://www.diveintomark.org/">Mark Pilgrim</a> (actually, I just stole his code)
<li><a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/">Sam Ruby</a>
<li><a href="http://markos.gaivo.net/blog/">Marko Samastur</a>
<li><a href="http://www.kapsi.fi/~jks/">Jouni Sepp&auml;nen</a>
<li>Alexander Schmolck (a dot schmolck at gmx dot net)
<li>Glyn Webster (glyn at wave co nz)
<li><A href="http://blog.noctua.org.uk/">Paul Wright</a>
<li><a href="http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/">Danny Yoo</a>
<li>Staffan Malmgren (staffan at tomtebo dot org)
<li>Andy Theyers (andy at isotoma dot com)
</ul>

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

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

<p>Possibly others I've forgotten.

<p>A big part of Beautiful Soup's encoding detection code was
originally written by Mark Pilgrim as part of the <a
href="http://www.feedparser.org/">Universal Feed Parser</a>.