diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/__tests__/removeUnwantedElements.test.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/__tests__/removeUnwantedElements.test.ts
index cfa49e7..0dc24c8 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/__tests__/removeUnwantedElements.test.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/__tests__/removeUnwantedElements.test.ts
@@ -60,4 +60,44 @@ describe('removeUnwantedElements', () => {
     expect(result).toContain('Main Content');
     expect(result).not.toContain('<aside>');
   });
+
+  it('should handle complex regex patterns for class names', () => {
+    const html = `<div class="test-123">Remove</div><div class="test-abc">Remove</div><div class="keep">Keep</div><div class="test-xyz">Remove</div>`;
+    const options: PageOptions = { removeTags: ['*.test-[a-z]+*'] };
+    const result = removeUnwantedElements(html, options);
+    expect(result).toContain('class="test-123"');
+    expect(result).not.toContain('class="test-abc"');
+    expect(result).not.toContain('class="test-xyz"');
+    expect(result).toContain('class="keep"');
+  });
+
+  it('should handle complex regex patterns for attributes', () => {
+    const html = `<div data-info="12345">Remove</div><div data-info="abcde">Keep</div><div data-info="67890">Remove</div>`;
+    const options: PageOptions = { removeTags: ['*data-info="\\d+"*'] }; // Matches data-info that starts with digits
+    const result = removeUnwantedElements(html, options);
+    expect(result).not.toContain('data-info="12345"');
+    expect(result).not.toContain('data-info="67890"');
+    expect(result).toContain('data-info="abcde"');
+  });
+
+  it('should handle mixed selectors with regex', () => {
+    const html = `<div class="remove-this">Remove</div><div id="remove-this">Remove</div><div class="keep-this">Keep</div>`;
+    const options: PageOptions = { removeTags: ['.remove-this', '#remove-this'] };
+    const result = removeUnwantedElements(html, options);
+    expect(result).not.toContain('class="remove-this"');
+    expect(result).not.toContain('id="remove-this"');
+    expect(result).toContain('class="keep-this"');
+  });
+
+  it('should handle multiple regex patterns', () => {
+    const html = `<div attr="test-123">Remove</div><div class="class-remove">Remove</div><div class="keep">Keep</div><div class="remove-this">Remove</div><div id="remove-this">Remove</div>`;
+    const options: PageOptions = { removeTags: ['*test*', '.class-remove', '*.remove-[a-z]+*', '#remove-this'] };
+    const result = removeUnwantedElements(html, options);
+    expect(result).not.toContain('class="test-123"');
+    expect(result).not.toContain('class="test-abc"');
+    expect(result).not.toContain('class="remove"');
+    expect(result).not.toContain('class="remove-this"');
+    expect(result).not.toContain('id="remove-this"');
+    expect(result).toContain('class="keep"');
+  });
 });
diff --git a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/removeUnwantedElements.ts b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/removeUnwantedElements.ts
index 0fd28a5..b69e007 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/removeUnwantedElements.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/scraper/WebScraper/utils/removeUnwantedElements.ts
@@ -15,22 +15,34 @@ export const removeUnwantedElements = (html: string, pageOptions: PageOptions) =
       pageOptions.removeTags.forEach((tag) => {
         let elementsToRemove: Cheerio<AnyNode>;
         if (tag.startsWith("*") && tag.endsWith("*")) {
-          const regexPattern = new RegExp(`\\b${tag.slice(1, -1)}\\b`);
-          elementsToRemove = soup('*').filter((index, element) => {
-            const classNames = soup(element).attr('class');
-            return classNames && classNames.split(/\s+/).some(className => regexPattern.test(className));
+          let classMatch = false;
+
+          const regexPattern = new RegExp(tag.slice(1, -1), 'i');
+          elementsToRemove = soup('*').filter((i, element) => {
+            if (element.type === 'tag') {
+              const attributes = element.attribs;
+              const tagNameMatches = regexPattern.test(element.name);
+              const attributesMatch = Object.keys(attributes).some(attr => 
+                regexPattern.test(`${attr}="${attributes[attr]}"`)
+              );
+              if (tag.startsWith('*.')) {
+                classMatch = Object.keys(attributes).some(attr => 
+                  regexPattern.test(`class="${attributes[attr]}"`)
+                );
+              }
+              return tagNameMatches || attributesMatch || classMatch;
+            }
+            return false;
           });
         } else {
           elementsToRemove = soup(tag);
         }
-  
         elementsToRemove.remove();
       });
     }
   }
   
   if (pageOptions.onlyMainContent) {
-    // remove any other tags that are not in the main content
     excludeNonMainTags.forEach((tag) => {
       const elementsToRemove = soup(tag);
       elementsToRemove.remove();