Extract HTML Links with Specified Tag and Attribute

This function extracts all links from the given HTML content based on the specified tag and attribute.

Technology Stack : Beautiful Soup

Code Type : The type of code

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def extract_links_from_html(html_content, tag='a', attribute='href'):
    """
    Extracts all links from a given HTML content based on the specified tag and attribute.

    Parameters:
    html_content (str): The HTML content to parse.
    tag (str): The tag to search for links. Default is 'a'.
    attribute (str): The attribute of the tag to extract the link from. Default is 'href'.

    Returns:
    list: A list of extracted links.
    """
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')
    links = [link.get(attribute) for link in soup.find_all(tag) if link.get(attribute)]
    return links