I was reading: Is it possible for BeautifulSoup to work in a case-insensitive manner?
But it’s not what I actually needed, I’m looking for all img tags in webpage, which include: IMG, Img etc...
This code:
images = soup.findAll('img')
Will only look for img tags case sensitive so how can I solve this problem without adding new line for every single possibility (and maybe forget to add some)?
Please Note that the above question isn’t about the tag but it’s properties.
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Answer
BeautifulSoup is not case sensitiv per se just give it a try. If you miss some information in your result maybe there is another issue. You could force it to parse sensitiv while using xml parser if needed in some case.
Note: In newer code avoid old syntax findAll() instead use find_all() – For more take a minute to check docs
Example
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = '''
<img src="" alt="lower">
<IMG src="" alt="upper">
<iMG src="" alt="mixed">
'''
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
soup.find_all('img')
Output
[<img alt="lower" src=""/>, <img alt="upper" src=""/>, <img alt="mixed" src=""/>]