Select HTML tags that have one or more specific attributes with bs4

Question

I want to use use soup.find_all to find all HTML tags that have id or name attributes.

The following code works for the id attribute:

for tag in soup.find_all(attrs={"id": True}):

However, the following code with two attributes doesn't:

for tag in soup.find_all(attrs={"id":True, "name":True}):

Is it possible to do a Boolean search with bs4 that will find all tags that have one of two specific attributes (or both attributes) or will I have to search for each attribute separately?

Answer 1

soup.find_all(lambda element: 'name' in element.attrs or 'id' in element.attrs)

We use lambda to access the element inside find_all . And then, we use the in operator to check if element.attrs (it's a dictionary) has key name or id .