In BeautifulSoup, the Tag object represents an XML or HTML tag from the original document being scraped. 

BeautifulSoup Tag

The BeautifulSoup object represents the parsed XML or HTML file.

BeautifulSoup(object)

The NavigableString object represents the text inside of an XML or HTML tag.

BeautifulSoup NavigableString

There are four main objects in BeautifulSoup:

- BeautifulSoup
- Tag
- NavigableString
- Comment

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BeautifulSoup is a Python library that helps with scraping information from websites by providing tools to extract data from HTML and XML files

BeautifulSoup

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BeautifulSoup Documentation

BeautifulSoup Objects

To get started, we need to import BeautifulSoup from bs4, then parse our file by passing it into the BeautifulSoup constructor.
```Python
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

with open('filename.html') as f:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(f, 'html.parser')

```
A "soup" object can also be created by getting HTML content directly from a website using the Requests module:
```Python
import requests

response = requests.get("https://example.com")
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser")

```

Creating the "soup"

Installing Beautiful Soup is easiest if you have pip or another Python installer already in place. If you don’t have pip, run through a quick tutorial on installing python modules to get it running. Once you have pip installed, run the following command in the terminal to install Beautiful Soup:
```Python
$ pip install beautifulsoup4
```

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