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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Oct 26, 2022 1 min read [\#beautifulsoup](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/beautifulsoup) [\#data-parsing](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/data-parsing) [\#python](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/python) 

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Using Python and Beautifulsoup, to find elements without a specific attribute (like `class`) we can use `find` or `find_all` methods or [CSS selectors](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/parsing-html-with-css):

python```python
import bs4
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup("""
<a class="ignore">bad link</a>
<a>good link</a>
""")

soup.find_all("a", class_=None)
["<a>good link</a>]
# or using a lambda function:
soup.find_all("a", class_=lambda value: "ignore" not in value)
# or using regular expression
soup.find_all("a", class_=re.compile(""))
```





 

    



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