Remove IMG tag from HTML using Regex - Python 2.7

Question

I have HTML and I want to remove IMG tag from it.

I am not good at regex, I have this function but it does not remove IMG tag

def remove_img_tags(data):
    p = re.compile(r'<img.*?/>')
    return p.sub('', data)

What is the proper regex? I don't want to use any library.

Answer 1

Try this:

image_tag = re.compile(r'<img.*?/>').search(data).group()
data.replace(image_tag, '')

Answer 2

All you need is to capture img tag and replace it with empty string.

clean_data = re.sub("(<img.*?>)", "", data, 0, re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE)

You'll be passing HTML content in data . Regex will remove all img tags, their content and return clean data in clean_data variable.