#start from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import requests req = requests.get('https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500') soup = BeautifulSoup(req.text, 'html.parser')
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup with open("index.html") as fp: soup = BeautifulSoup(fp) soup = BeautifulSoup("<html>a web page</html>")