diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
index 1f1164b..6449797 100644
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ updates:
     labels:
       - "dependencies"
       - "automerge"
+    # AutoScraper 1.1.x is incompatible with beautifulsoup4 4.13+ (empty build results).
+    ignore:
+      - dependency-name: "beautifulsoup4"
+        versions: [">=4.13.0"]
     groups:
       prod-minor-patch:
         dependency-type: "production"
diff --git a/python/requirements.txt b/python/requirements.txt
index 841d553..d183864 100644
--- a/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/python/requirements.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ pycurl>=7.47.0; platform_system != "Windows"
 cloudscraper>=1.2.71
 autoscraper>=1.1.14
 # autoscraper 1.1.x fails build() with beautifulsoup4 4.13+ (empty learned list); keep 4.12.x
-beautifulsoup4>=4.15.0,<4.16
+beautifulsoup4>=4.12.0,<4.13
 lxml>=6.1.3
 scrapy>=2.18.0