Using Python and BeautifulSoup, to find elements by attribute value we can use find and find_all methods or CSS selectors through the select and select_one methods:
import bs4 soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup('<a alt="this is a link">some link</a>') # to find exact matches: soup.find("a", alt="this is a link") # or soup.find("a", {"alt": "this is a link"}) # to find partial matches we can use regular expressions: import re soup.find("a", alt=re.compile("a link", re.I)) # tip: the re.I paramter makes this case insensitive # or using CSS selectors for exact matches: soup.select('a[alt="this is a link"]') # and to find partial matches we can contains matcher `*=`: soup.select('a[alt*="a link"]') # or soup.select('a[alt*="a link" i]') # tip: the "i" suffix makes this case insensitive 
