XPath：从属性字符串中选择特定项目

Question

Trying to drill down to a specific Xpath of a url in a longer string. I've gotten down to each of the listed blocks, but can't seem to get any further than the long string of properties.

example code:

<div class="abc class">
    <a class="123" title="abc" keys="xyz" href="url string">

Right now I have...

.//*[@id='content']/div/div[1]/a

That only retrieves the whole string of data, from class through href. What would I need to just retrieve the "url string" from that part? Would this need to be accomplished with a subsequent 'for' argument in the python input?

Answer 1

A pure XPath solution would involve just adding the @href to the expression:

.//*[@id='content']/div/div[1]/a/@href

In Python, assuming you are using lxml.html , you can get the attribute using the .attrib :

for link in root.xpath(".//*[@id='content']/div/div[1]/a"):
    print(link.attrib['href'])

Answer 2

Try to avoid this array

if your class name is unique you can do it like:-

//*[@id='content']/div/div[@class='abc class']/a[@keys='xyz']/@href

Hope it will help you :)