How can I use Python's Beautiful Soup to find the value of a custom attribute?

Question

For example:

div data3456 = "some value"

data3456 is a custom attribute for the div . How can I scan the html looking for "data3456" and find "some value"?

Answer 1

You can use similar logic which is used here: How to use CSS selectors to retrieve specific links lying in some class using BeautifulSoup? .

Try this:

for el in upcoming_events_div.select('div[data3456]'):
    print el['data3456']

Answer 2

May I suggest this article? It covers, what I think, you are looking for.