At Tipjoy, I needed to parse pages to find Tipjoy widgets to validate the owner of the widget. The configuration made sense, but left me in an undesirable posit

At Tipjoy, I needed to parse pages to find Tipjoy widgets to validate the owner of the widget. The configuration made sense, but left me in an undesirable position of parsing lots of pages. At first I used regexes. I would find bugs, and fix them. The bugs affected the product in delaying confirmation of content ownership, which stinks. I noticed that the bugs didn't stop coming, so I switched to BeautifulSoup. It was faster and better. I highly recommend it for anyone using Python.