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Using [Python and Beautifulsoup](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/web-scraping-with-python-beautifulsoup#parsing-html-with-beautifulsoup) we can find any HTML element by partial or exact text value using `find` / `find_all` method by passing regular expressions object to the `text` parameter:

python```python
import re
import bs4

soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup('<a>Twitter link</a>')

# case sensitive:
soup.find("a", text=re.compile("Twitter"))  # will find 1st ocurrance 
soup.find_all("a", text=re.compile("Twitter"))  # will find all ocurrances
# case insensitive:
soup.find("a", text=re.compile("twitter", re.I))
soup.find_all("a", text=re.compile("twitter", re.I))
```





 

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