Remove String in Quotes Around Surrounding String

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Let’s say I have images with alternate text that serves no purpose other than to add visuals to my website. Here’s an example:

<img src="..." alt="my first picture">
<img src="..." alt="my second picture">

I’ve been trying to remove whatever text that is in alternate text. This is the command that I need to execute that removes whatever alternate text that is considered decorative:

find modl/posts/ -name "*.html" -exec sed 's/alt="[^ \/]*\( .*\)">/alt="">/g' {} \;

With that in mind, I want it to be something like:

<img src="..." alt="">
<img src="..." alt="">

How would i accomplish this with one command without having to go through each HTML file to remove what is in alt=“” attribute?

PS: I ask that you please do not read outside the context of my post. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines cover Success Criterion 1.1.1 and that standard covers different types of images. I need to remove alternate text inside quotes that should only serve the purpose (“why?”) and not tell what the content is about (“what?”).

Thank you.

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import bs4
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import os

myDir = "PATH_TO_THE_FOLDER_WITH_THE_HTML-FILES"
for f in os.listdir(myDir):
    if f.endswith(".html"):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(f, "html.parser")  
    alt = soup.find("alt")
    alt.string = ""

Save the content to file like replace_alt.py

chmod +x replace_alt.py

install if needed:
pip3 install bs4
pip3 install request

run de file: python3 replace_alt.py

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Thank you very much, but I’m good. I have not been here in a while.