The BeautifulSoup object represents the parsed XML or HTML file.

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There are four main objects in BeautifulSoup:

- BeautifulSoup
- Tag
- NavigableString
- Comment

BeautifulSoup Objects

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

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

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