Scan site for images and alt attributes [closed]

Question

We'd like to run a scan on our site that returns a report with the following:

1. each image tag found and a visual representation of that image on the report
2. the alt attribute for that image (also identify if an alt attribute isn't found)

Is there a simple tool that does this? We're attempting to check for alt attributes, and make sure the alt attributes accurately describe to the image they represent. That's why the visual representation in the report is important.

Answer 1

Try the Python package Beautiful Soup. It will parse all of your HTML for you in a really simple statement. Try this code:

website = urllib2.urlopen(url)
websitehtml = website.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(websitehtml)
matches = soup.findAll('img')
for row in matches:
    print row['src']
    print row['alt']

From here use row['src'] to set the src of an image and print out alt next to it.