<div class="summary-item">
<label >Price</label>
<div class="value">
0.99 GBP
</div>
</div>
<div class="summary-item">
<label >Other info</label>
<div class="value">
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</div>
</div>
I am trying to get the "0.99 GBP" using an XPath expression, so far I have reached the label using this (note there is another class by the name summary-item, therefore I need to uniquely identify with the label name Price)
sel.xpath('//*/div[#class="summary-item"]/label[text()="Price"]').extract()
However, I am unable to get to the class, I tried using following-sibling, but I did not succeed, any help will be appreciated.
The existence of child nodes can be part of the predicate. Put the test for label into a predicate for the parent, either as a separate predicate (adding the target node as well):
//div[#class="summary-item"][label[text()="Price"]]/div[#class="value"]
or joined with and:
//div[#class="summary-item" and label[text()="Price"]]/div[#class="value"]
(Note you don’t need //*/div at the start.)
You could use following-sibling if you wanted, it would look like this:
//div[#class="summary-item"]/label[text()="Price"]/following-sibling::div[#class="value"]
(here the label div isn’t part of the predicate).
One more thing to be aware of, using XPath to select HTML classes doesn’t work the same as using CSS – XPath will only match the exact string whereas CSS matches even if the element is in more than one class. In this case it works out okay but you should watch out for it. Search StackOverflow if it will be an issue, there are a few answers descibing it.
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I need the third image with that class and parent. None of these xpaths seem to be valid.
xpath=(//div[#class='itemTileV5'])//img[#class='dealItem']/#src[3]
xpath=(//div[#class='itemTileV5']//img[#class='dealItem'])/#src[3]
xpath=(//div[#class='itemTileV5']//img[#class='dealItem']/#src)[3]
Notice I move the parentheses around and it's always an invalid path. Without parentheses it won't work either.
Please help.
<div class="itemTileV5">
<div class="top">
<a href="/Grocery_deals/p_pepperidge-farm-goldfish-variety-pack-bold-mix-29-4-ounce">
<img class="Item" src="https://img.google.com/ai/184x184/dealimage/1493649114.jpg" alt="Pepperidge Farm">
</a>
</div>
</div>
All three of your expressions are valid in all versions of XPath. If you're getting an error, please tell us what it is, and what XPath processor generated it.
The first two expressions aren't useful, because #src[3] selects the third attribute called "src" and there can only be one attribute with a given name.
Your informal requirement "the third image with that class and parent" seems to translate to (//div[#class='itemTileV5']/img[#class='dealItem'])[3]/#src
I have several web pages that have the following structure
<div id="w_33086" class = "eight columns">
<h2 id="about">About<span itemprop="name">Name of Place</span></h2>
<p style="margin-top: 0px;">
.
.
.
<p class="contactAdvisor"><a href="http://www.example.com/contact">
The text and markup between the two paragraphs is quite variable as it is created through individual users. In some cases it includes markup and in some cases it does not. When it does include markup, the mark up can be quite variable.
I'm trying to select all of the text and markup between these two <p> but have not been successful.
The best result I've achieved comes from //div[id='w_33086']/node()
However, that is dropping the <p> tags when those are present. It also picks up the <h2> tag and the <p class="contactAdvisor"> that I would rather exclude.
I'm using Google Sheets (and or Screaming Frog) to apply the xpath
If the two <p> elements are siblings of each other, then you could try
//div[id='w_33086']/p[#style="margin-top: 0px;"]/
following-sibling::node()[following-sibling::p[#class="contactAdvisor"]]
This is assuming that there is only one <p> under <div id="w_33086"> that has the style or class attribute value (respectively) that we're using to identify them.
Please note that XPath does not select any "markup". It selects nodes such as text nodes, elements (which have descendants attached), and attributes. Those nodes can be serialized as markup, but that's not XPath's business.
Given this page snippet
<section id="mysection">
<div>
<div>
<div>
<a href="">
<div>first</div>
</a>
</div>
<div>
<a href="">
<div>second</div>
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
I want to access the second a-element using relative Xpath. In FF (and locating with Selenium IDE) this
//section[#id='mysection']//a[1]
works but this does not match
//section[#id='mysection']//a[2]
What is wrong with the second expression?
EDIT: Actually I do not care so much about Selenium IDE (just use it for quick verification). I want to get it going with selenium2library in Robot Framework. Here, the output is:
ValueError: Element locator with prefix '(//section[#id' is not
supported
for the suggested solution (//section[#id='mysection']//a)[2]
You can use this. This would select the anchor descendants of section and get you the second node. This works with xslt processor, hope this works with Selenium
//section[#id='mysection']/descendant::a[2]
Try this way instead :
(//section[#id='mysection']//a)[2]
//a[2] looks for <a> element within the same parent. Since each parent <div> only contains one <a> child, your xpath didn't match anything.
With this:
//section[#id='mysection']//a[1]
you are matching all first 'a' elements within any context (inside one div, for example), but with this
//section[#id='mysection']//a[2]
you are trying to match any second 'a' element with any context, but you dont have more than one 'a' element in any of nodes.
The icrementing sibling node thus should be a parent div node to those 'a' tags.
Very simple:
//section[#id='mysection']//a[1] - both elements
This is why previous answer with paranthesis around the whole thing is correct.
//section[#id='mysection']//div[1]/a - only first element
//section[#id='mysection']//div[2]/a - only second elemnt
Other way to mach each 'a' separately:
//section[#id='mysection']//a[div[text()='first']]
//section[#id='mysection']//a[div[text()='second']]
Other ways to reach to the second a-element can be by using the
<div>second</div>, call this bottom-up approach
instead of starting from section-element
<section id="mysection">, call this top-down approach
Using the div child of a-element, the solutions should look like this:
//div[.='second']/..
i need to scrap information form a website contain the property details.
<div class="inner">
<div class="col">
<h2>House in Digana </h2>
<div class="meta">
<div class="date"></div>
<span class="category">Houses</span>,
<span class="location">Kandy</span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="attr polar">
<span class="data">Rs. 3,600,000</span>
</div>
what is the xpath notation for "Kandy" and "Rs. 3,600,000" ?
It is not wise to address text nodes directly using text() because of nuances in an XML document.
Rather, addressing an element node directly returns the concatenation of all descendant text nodes as the element value, which is what people usually want (and think they are getting when they address text nodes).
The canonical example I use in the classroom is this example of OCR'ed content as XML:
<cost>39<!--that 9 may be an 8-->.22</cost>
The value of the element using the XPath address cost is "39.22", but in XSLT 1.0 the value of the XPath address cost/text() is "39" which is not complete. In XSLT 2.0 (which is how the question is tagged), you get two text nodes "39" and ".22", which if you concatenate them it looks correct. But, if you pass them to a function requiring a singleton argument, you will get a run-time error. When you address an element, the text returned is concatenated into a single string, which is suitable for a singleton argument.
I tell students that in all of my professional work there are only very (very!) few times that I ever have to use text() in my stylesheets.
So //span[#class='location' or #class='data'] would find the two fields if those were the only such elements in the entire document. You may need to use ".//span" from a location inside of the document tree.
I been trying for over 2 hours to import timestamp from zap2it.com link to my google spreasheet.
Here is link I am trying to importxml from.
http://affiliate.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?zipcode=78238&lineupId=DISH641:-
Here is what I am tryign to import
Here is what I tried so far
=importxml("http://affiliate.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?aid=dish&pkg=8388608&fromProvider=true&zipcode=78238&x=52&y=18"&B1,"//body//div[3]/div/div/div[3]/div/div")
EDIT
I was able to improve and get better results
//body//div[3]/div/div/div[1]//*
but it shows timestamp from all over the page. not exactly what I need.
[The first complication is that the data stream returned from dereferencing that URI is not actually XML; it has several thousand well-formedness errors (unescaped ampersands in URIs, unescaped ampersands and less-than signs in scripts, some embedded HTML, some miscellaneous errors). Since you're not reporting problems from that, however, I'll assume that somewhere between the server and your XPath expression someone is doing some tidying.]
I think you'll get better results if you use the id and class attributes that are extensively used in the document. The material you want looks like this in the source (you can use any browser-based debugging tool to find it; I used the 'Web Inspector' in Safari); I have indented to make the structure more visible, and fixed some well-formedness errors in one of the a elements (missing whitespace between attribute-value pairs).
<div class="zc-tn" id="zc-tn-top">
<div class="zc-tn-i">
<a href="ZCGrid.do?fromTimeInMillis=1355781600000"
class="zc-tn-l"
title="Move the grid three hours earlier"></a>
<div class="zc-tn-c">
<span class="zc-tn-z"
title="Central Standard Time">CST</span>
<div class="zc-tn-t">7:00 PM</div>
<div class="zc-tn-t">7:30 PM</div>
<div class="zc-tn-t">8:00 PM</div>
<div class="zc-tn-t">8:30 PM</div>
<div class="zc-tn-t">9:00 PM</div>
<div class="zc-tn-t">9:30 PM</div>
</div>
<a href="ZCGrid.do?fromTimeInMillis=1355803200000"
class="zc-tn-r"
title="Advance the grid three hours"></a>
</div>
</div>
A simple search verifies that the value zc-tn-top is indeed unique as an ID value in the document. Given that, a simple XPath expression to retrieve all the elements whose display is circled in your image is (assuming xhtml is bound to the XHTML namespace):
//xhtml:div[#id='zc-tn-top']//xhtml:div[#class='zc-tn-t']
It looks from your question as if your XPath evaluator is namespace-challenged or namespace-oblivious, so you may need to write this as
//div[#id='zc-tn-top']//div[#class='zc-tn-t']