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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Tag
import re

data = '''<div>
<a href="link_1">Link 1</a>
<a href="link_2">Link 1</a>
<a href="link_XXX">Link 1</a>
<a href="link_3">Link 1</a>
</div>'''

soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'lxml')

class my_regex_searcher:
    def __init__(self, regex_string):
        self.__r = re.compile(regex_string)
        self.groups = []

    def __call__(self, what):
        if isinstance(what, Tag):
            what = what.name

        if what:
            g = self.__r.findall(what)
            if g:
                self.groups.append(g)
                return True
        return False

    def __iter__(self):
        yield from self.groups

searcher = my_regex_searcher(r'link_(\d+)')
for l, groups in zip(soup.find_all(href=searcher), searcher):
    print(l)
    print(groups)

searcher = my_regex_searcher(r'(d)(i)(v)')
for l, groups in zip(soup.find_all(searcher), searcher):
    print(l.prettify())
    print(groups)
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