How to extract a node whose accesstors satisfy some condition? - xpath

If I use the following xpath,
//a[#itemprop="email"]/ancestor::li[#itemtype = "http://schema.org/Person"]/ancestor::div[#class="authors__list"]
I will extract this. But I am interested in only the li with the email. Is there a way to test the ancetors of an a is li and div who has the properties #itemtype = "http://schema.org/Person and #class="authors__list" respectively? (So that I won't get the li's that do no have emails.) Thanks.
<div class="authors__list" data-role="AuthorsList">
<ul class="test-contributor-names">
<li itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="u-mb-2 u-pt-4 u-pb-4"><span itemprop="name" class="authors__name">Yong Zhang</span><span class="author-information"><span class="authors__contact"><img src="/springerlink-static/images/svg/email.svg" height="24" width="24" alt="Email author"></span></span></li>
<li itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="u-mb-2 u-pt-4 u-pb-4"><span itemprop="name" class="authors__name">Qiyuan Li</span></li>
<li itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="u-mb-2 u-pt-4 u-pb-4"><span itemprop="name" class="authors__name">Xian Wang</span></li>
<li itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" class="u-mb-2 u-pt-4 u-pb-4"><span itemprop="name" class="authors__name">Xiaolin Zhou</span></li>
</ul>
</div>

You can try:
//a[ancestor::li[#itemtype='http://schema.org/Person']][ancestor::div[#class="authors__list"]]
which fits your description of an a element with both a li and a div ancestor, with each ancestor having the specified attribute and attribute value.

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Proper xpath Syntax for Extracting Two Text Values

I am trying to scrape a web page for NAME OF COMPANY and CITY AND STATE OF COMPANY shown below.
I have an xpath code snippet that identifies both text elements at the same time:
// span[starts-with(#class,"text-align")]/text()[2]
This xpath snippet pulls the first text value (COMPANY NAME). How do I get the second text element (CITY,STATE)?
A snip of the web page code looks like this:
<div>
<ul class="pv-top-card-v3--experience-list">
<li>
<a class="pv-top-card-v3--experience-list-item" href="#" data-control-name="position_see_more" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-172="172">
<img src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E0BAQFhA8h46hvabA/company-logo_100_100/0?e=1582761600&v=beta&t=VAeZqaGu3Lu6Ol_n5kiiI74FSRuSOZA1ggAI5qTVRjE" id="ember173" class="EntityPhoto-square-1 flex-shrink-zero ember-view">
<span id="ember174" class="text-align-left ml2 t-14 t-black t-bold full-width lt-line-clamp lt-line-clamp--multi-line ember-view" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 2"> THIS IS THE NAME OF A COMPANY
<!----></span>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="pv-top-card-v3--experience-list-item" href="#" data-control-name="education_see_more" data-ember-action="" data-ember-action-176="176">
<img src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C560BAQEr2uQX-x2EwQ/company-logo_100_100/0?e=1582761600&v=beta&t=aDbYLUDMvlS4DpwOLjOaQj3Dj60C_cYLC5UUvGoyld0" id="ember177" class="EntityPhoto-square-1 flex-shrink-zero ember-view">
<span id="ember178" class="text-align-left ml2 t-14 t-black t-bold full-width lt-line-clamp lt-line-clamp--multi-line ember-view" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 2"> THIS IS THE CITY AND STATE OF COMPANY
<!----></span>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
The xpath string is picking up the two span elements using class. I can't use the span id attributes because they are dynamic and change with each page (one page per company).
Can someone advise how I extract the desired text?
Thanks.
point to the li level.
//ul/li[2]/a/span[starts-with(#class,"text-align")]

Scrapy and XPath issue with nested Xpaths

I'm trying to read Amazon products into scrapy.
Starting from a random category using this XPath:
products = Selector(response).xpath('//div[#class="s-item-container"]')
for product in products:
item = AmzItem()
item['title'] = product.xpath('//a[#class="s-access-detail-page"]/#title').extract()[0]
item['url'] = product.xpath('//a[#class="s-access-detail-page"]/#href').extract()[0]
yield item
('//div[#class="s-item-container"]') returns all the divs with the products on one category page - that's correct.
Now, how would I get the link to the product?
// stands for where ever in the code
a with the #class should select the right class
But I get a:
item['title'] = product.xpath('//a[#class="s-access-detail-page"]/#title').extract()[0]
exceptions.IndexError: list index out of range
So my list matching this XPath must be empty - but I don't understand why?
EDIT:
The HTML would look like that:
<div class="s-item-container" style="height: 343px;">
<div class="a-row a-spacing-base">
<div class="a-column a-span12 a-text-left">
<div class="a-section a-spacing-none a-inline-block s-position-relative">
<a class="a-link-normal a-text-normal" href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B0105S434A" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img alt="Product Details" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41%2BzrAY74UL._AA160_.jpg" onload="viewCompleteImageLoaded(this, new Date().getTime(), 24, false);" class="s-access-image cfMarker" height="160" width="160"></a>
<div class="a-section a-spacing-none a-text-center">
<div class="a-row a-spacing-top-mini">
<a class="a-size-mini a-link-normal a-text-normal" href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B0105S434A" rel="nofollow noreferrer">
<div class="a-box">
<div class="a-box-inner a-padding-mini"><span class="a-color-secondary">See more choices</span></div>
</div>
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="a-row a-spacing-mini">
<div class="a-row a-spacing-none">
<a class="a-link-normal s-access-detail-page a-text-normal" title="Harry Potter Gryffindor School Fancy Robe Cloak Costume And Tie (Size S)" href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B0105S434A" rel="nofollow noreferrer">
<h2 class="a-size-base a-color-null s-inline s-access-title a-text-normal">Harry Potter Gryffindor School Fancy Robe Cloak Costume And Tie (Size S)</h2>
</a>
</div>
<div class="a-row a-spacing-mini"><span class="a-size-small a-color-secondary">by </span><span class="a-size-small a-color-secondary">Legend</span></div>
</div>
<div class="a-row a-spacing-mini">
<div class="a-row a-spacing-none"><a class="a-size-small a-link-normal a-text-normal" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0105S434A/ref=sr_1_21_olp?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1435391788&sr=1-21&keywords=pet+supplies&condition=new"><span class="a-size-base a-color-price a-text-bold">$28.99</span><span class="a-letter-space"></span>new<span class="a-letter-space"></span><span class="a-color-secondary">(1 offer)</span><span class="a-letter-space"></span><span class="a-color-secondary a-text-strike"></span></a></div>
</div>
<div class="a-row a-spacing-none"><span name="B0105S434A">
<span class="a-declarative" data-action="a-popover" data-a-popover="{"max-width":"700","closeButton":"false","position":"triggerBottom","url":"/review/widgets/average-customer-review/popover/ref=acr_search__popover?ie=UTF8&asin=B0105S434A&contextId=search&ref=acr_search__popover"}"><i class="a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4"><span class="a-icon-alt">3.9 out of 5 stars</span></i><i class="a-icon a-icon-popover"></i></span></span>
<a class="a-size-small a-link-normal a-text-normal" href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B0105S434A" rel="nofollow noreferrer">48</a>
</div>
</div>
It should be:
# ------------- The dot makes the query relative to product
product.xpath('.//a[#class="s-access-detail-page"]/#title')
//a[#class="s-access-detail-page"] requires to be exactly class="s-access-detail-page", because xpath works with string but not with meaning :) When you have "multi class ", use contains function
//a[contains(concat(' ', #class, ' '), " s-access-detail-page ")]/#title

How to get xpath to a link to picture?

How to extract xpath to link of image? I want to extract this specific link:
http://insales.ru/images/bigpic.jpeg
I dont know how I must specify xpath. Do I have to include all parent tags to get it or I just can go directly to tag?
<div class="tango">
<div class="container-horizontal">
<div class="clip-horizontal">
<ul id="carousel" class="pagination jcarousel">
<li class="jcarousel-item">
<a rev=http://insales.ru/images/bigpic.jpeg href="http://insales.ru/images/pic2.jpeg">
<img src="http://insales.ru/images/thumb.jpeg">
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
So my xpath would be:
//li[contains(#class, 'jcarousel-item jcarousel-item-horizontal jcarouse')]/a
Or I have to include all parent div tags:
//div[#class="tango"]//div[#class="container-horizontal"]//li[contains(#class, 'jcarousel-item jcarousel-item-horizontal jcarouse')]/a
But anyway both of this xpaths don't work.
How to specify xpath to extract this link: http://insales.ru/images/bigpic.jpeg
There are several options but the shortest one is probably:
.//*[#id='carousel']/li/a/img

How to mark only product categories?

How do I have to mark my website product categories? … only categories …
Maybe with category from Offer?
Something like:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
<a itemprop="category" href="category1.php">My category 1</a>
</div>
You should not specify category on an a element. The value would be the URI (category1.php), not the content (My category 1).
category expects a value that is either text or another item.
So if you want to provide text, you could use something like:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
<span itemprop="category">My category 1</span>
</div>
And yes, it is totally fine to use only one property. Schema.org doesn’t define required properties. But consumers (e.g., search engines) might, of course, only consider re-using your data if it fulfils certain of their own requirements.
UPDATE: If you want to provide several categories for the item, it could be something like:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
<ul>
<li itemprop="category">My category 1</li>
<li itemprop="category">My category 2</li>
<li itemprop="category">My category 3</li>
</ul>
</div>
Don’t rename the category property! Adding 1, 2 etc. to it would be wrong.
(And it it’s a hierarchy of categories, you could use one value and / or >., e.g. Sports > Tennis.)

Rich Snippets : Microdata itemprop out of the itemtype?

I've recently decided to update a website by adding rich snippets - microdata.
The thing is I'm a newbie to this kind of things and I'm having a small question about this.
I'm trying to define the Organization as you can see from the code below:
<div class="block-content" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<p itemprop="name">SOME ORGANIZATION</p>
<p itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
<span itemprop="streetAddress">Manufacture Street no 4</span>,
<span itemprop="PostalCode">4556210</span><br />
<span itemprop="addressLocality">CityVille</span>,
<span itemprop="addressCountry">SnippetsLand</span></p>
<hr>
<p itemprop="telephone">0444 330 226</p>
<hr>
<p>info#snippets.com</p>
</div>
Now, my problems consists in the following: I'd like to also tag the LOGO in order to make a complete Organization profile, but the logo stands in the header of my page, and the div I've posted above stands in the footer and the style/layout of the page doesnt permit me to add the logo in here and also make it visible.
So, how can I solve this thing? What's the best solution?
Thanks.
You can use the itemref attribute.
Give your logo in the header an id and add the corresponding itemprop:
<img src="acme-logo.png" alt="ACME Inc." itemprop="logo" id="logo" />
Now add itemref="logo" to your div in the footer:
<div class="block-content" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" itemref="logo">
…
</div>
If this is not possible in your case, you could "duplicate" the logo so that it’s included in your div, but not visible. Microdata allows meta and link elements in the body for this case. You should use the link element, as http://schema.org/Organization expects an URL for the logo property. (Alternatively, add it via meta as a separate ImageObject).
<div class="block-content" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
…
<link itemprop="logo" src="logo.png" />
…
</div>
Side note: I don’t think that you are using the hr element correctly in your example. If you simply want to display a horizontal line, you should use CSS (e.g. border-top on the p) instead.
Dan, you could simply add in the logo schema with this code:
<img itemprop="logo" src="http://www.example.com/logo.png" />
So in your example, you could simply tag it as:
<div class="block-content" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<p itemprop="name">SOME ORGANIZATION</p>
<img itemprop="logo" src="http://www.example.com/logo.png" />
<p itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
<span itemprop="streetAddress">Manufacture Street no 4</span>,
<span itemprop="PostalCode">4556210</span><br />
<span itemprop="addressLocality">CityVille</span>,
<span itemprop="addressCountry">SnippetsLand</span></p>
<hr>
<p itemprop="telephone">0444 330 226</p>
<hr>
<p>info#snippets.com</p>
</div>
I believe that should work for your particular case and it won't actually show the logo and you wouldn't have to mark up the logo separately. Hope that helps.

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