Is it possible for BeautifulSoup to work in a case-insensitive manner?

You can give BeautifulSoup a regular expression to match attributes against. Something like

soup.findAll('meta', name=re.compile("^description$", re.I))

might do the trick. Cribbed from the BeautifulSoup docs.

A regular expression? Now we have another problem.

Instead, you can pass in a lambda:

soup.findAll(lambda tag: tag.name.lower()=='meta',
    name=lambda x: x and x.lower()=='description')

(x and avoids an exception when the name attribute isn't defined for the tag)

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