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Lukas Morkunas
Lukas Morkunas

Reputation: 326

How to extract specific text with imacros xpath

I have this code in a website:

<div id="1234">
<li>
text I want to extract
<span>
text I don't want to extract
</span>
</li>
</div>

I'm using this IMACROS code, but it extracts both texts:

TAG XPATH="id('1234')/li[1]" EXTRACT=TXT

I was trying to use text() at the end but get an error.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2716

Answers (2)

Poyke
Poyke

Reputation: 655

For your Specific case Shugar's code with some tweaking will work. Split \n and extract [1] :

TAG XPATH="id('1234')/li[1]" EXTRACT=TXT
SET !EXTRACT EVAL("'{{!EXTRACT}}'.split('\\n')[1];")
PROMPT {{!EXTRACT}}

If you want a more General approach you can get li[1] and split by content of span at [0]:

TAG XPATH="id('1234')/li[1]" EXTRACT=TXT
SET !VAR1 {{!EXTRACT}}
SET !EXTRACT NULL 
TAG XPATH="id('1234')/li[1]/span" EXTRACT=TXT
SET !EXTRACT EVAL("'{{!VAR1}}'.split('{{!EXTRACT}}')[0];")
PROMPT {{!EXTRACT}}

Upvotes: 4

Shugar
Shugar

Reputation: 5299

I suggest just adding one more line in your code:

TAG XPATH="id('1234')/li[1]" EXTRACT=TXT
SET !EXTRACT EVAL("'{{!EXTRACT}}'.split('<span>')[0];")

Upvotes: 0

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