Test if an attribute is present in a tag in BeautifulSoup

Question

I would like to get all the

Answer 1

You don't need any lambdas to filter by attribute, you can simply use some_attribute=True in find or find_all.

script_tags = soup.find_all('script', some_attribute=True)

# or

script_tags = soup.find_all('script', {"some-data-attribute": True})

Here are more examples with other approaches as well:

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html)

# Find all with a specific attribute

tags = soup.find_all(src=True)
tags = soup.select("[src]")

# Find all meta with either name or http-equiv attribute.

soup.select("meta[name],meta[http-equiv]")

# find any tags with any name or source attribute.

soup.select("[name], [src]")

# find first/any script with a src attribute.

tag = soup.find('script', src=True)
tag = soup.select_one("script[src]")

# find all tags with a name attribute beginning with foo
# or any src beginning with /path
soup.select("[name^=foo], [src^=/path]")

# find all tags with a name attribute that contains foo
# or any src containing with whatever
soup.select("[name*=foo], [src*=whatever]")

# find all tags with a name attribute that endwith foo
# or any src that ends with  whatever
soup.select("[name$=foo], [src$=whatever]")

You can also use regular expressions with find or find_all:

import re
# starting with
soup.find_all("script", src=re.compile("^whatever"))
# contains
soup.find_all("script", src=re.compile("whatever"))
# ends with 
soup.find_all("script", src=re.compile("whatever$"))