How to extract href of a tag in node.js

Question

I am trying to scrape this page: https://www.sahibinden.com/kategori-vitrin?date=1day&viewType=Gallery&a5_min=2005&a5_max=2020&category=3530

I need to extract links of ads listed on this page. I provide xpath in yaml file and is then read and interpreted by node.js. In yaml file I simply give it this: data: "xpath: //html/body/div[4]/div[4]/form/div/div[3]/div[2]" and in node.js here is how it is interpreted:

function getxPath(data, path) {
  try {
    let root = new dom().parseFromString(data);
    
    let results = xpath.select(path, root);
    console.log(results);
    if (results.length > 0) {
      let _results = [];
      for (let r of results) {
        _results.push(r.textContent);
      }
      return _results;
    }
  } catch (exc) {
    console.log(exc);
  }
  return null;
}

I want to be able to extract links but so far I get only texts like this:

827926997

Sahibinden_Temiz_Orj Km_Tramersiz_




                     72.500 TL



                            Yıl:
                         
                        2010


                            KM:
                         
                        108.000


                            Renk:
                         
                        Gri

                    İlan Tarihi: 
                    03 Haziran 2020

                    İl / İlçe: 
                    İstanbul / Esenyurt

How do I get links?

Answer 1

It seems you need to fix your XPath expression. You request div element instead of @href attribute.

Use the following XPath:

//a[@class="classifiedTitle"]/@href

Output: 20 links per page.

EDIT: In the YAML file, replace double quotes with single quotes, like:

data: "xpath://a[@class='classifiedTitle']/@href"