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A way to remove all HTML attributes with BeautifulSoup
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kill_attrs.py
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
def _remove_attrs(soup):
tag_list = soup.findAll(lambda tag: len(tag.attrs) > 0)
for t in tag_list:
for attr, val in t.attrs:
del t[attr]
return soup
def example():
doc = '<html><head><title>test</title></head><body id="foo"><p class="wahtever">junk</p><div style="background: yellow;">blah</div></body></html>'
print 'Before:\n%s' % doc
soup = BeautifulSoup(doc)
clean_soup = _remove_attrs(soup)
print 'After:\n%s' % clean_soup
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