How to find elements without specific attributes in BeautifulSoup?

How to find elements without specific attributes in BeautifulSoup? | ScrapingBee

A very long clean paragraph

A very long dark paragraph

A very long paragraph without attribute

A very long light paragraph

”’
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, ‘html.parser’)

no_class_attribute = soup.find(“p”, attrs={“class”: None})

print(no_class_attribute)
# Output:

A very long paragraph without attribute

“>A very long clean paragraph

A very long dark paragraph

A very long paragraph without attribute

A very long light paragraph

”’
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, ‘html.parser’)

no_class_attribute = soup.find(“p”, attrs={“class”: None})

print(no_class_attribute)
# Output:

A very long paragraph without attribute

“>A very long clean paragraph

A very long dark paragraph

A very long paragraph without attribute

A very long light paragraph

”’
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, ‘html.parser’)

no_class_attribute = soup.find(“p”, attrs={“class”: None})

print(no_class_attribute)
# Output:

A very long paragraph without attribute

“>

To find elements without a specific attribute using BeautifulSoup, we use the attrs parameter of the function find, and we specify the attributes as None.

For example, to find the paragraph element without a class name, we set attrs={"class": None}:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

html_content = '''

A very long clean paragraph

A very long dark paragraph

A very long paragraph without attribute

A very long light paragraph

''' soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser') no_class_attribute = soup.find("p", attrs={"class": None}) print(no_class_attribute) # Output:

A very long paragraph without attribute

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