[FIXED] How to find a tag with an arbitrary attribute having an arbitrary value with Beautiful Soup?

Issue

I am trying to find <a> tag with itemprop attribute being url. So far the only approach i found is to use a lambda:

soup.find(lambda a : a.name=='a' and a.has_attr('itemprop') and a['itemprop']=='url')

But somehow i cannot believe that this is the best approach. Is there something simpler?

Solution

You can pass a dict to find.

soup.find("a", {"itemprop" : "url"})

Alternatively, use a CSS selector.

soup.select_one("a[itemprop='url']")

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