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jamcccc
jamcccc

Reputation: 23

how to get xpath by text in python

It's easy for us to get text by xpath, but is there any way to get xpath by text in Python?

eg. 

 <html><h1>Hello World</h1></html>

how to get xpath by Hello World?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5158

Answers (2)

Panagiotis Simakis
Panagiotis Simakis

Reputation: 1257

For the same problem i used this function. Hope this general example will help you.

you have to define the function from the given url:

def xpath_soup(element):
    """
    Generate xpath of soup element
    :param element: bs4 text or node
    :return: xpath as string
    """
    components = []
    child = element if element.name else element.parent
    for parent in child.parents:
        """
        @type parent: bs4.element.Tag
        """
        previous = itertools.islice(parent.children, 0,parent.contents.index(child))
        xpath_tag = child.name
        xpath_index = sum(1 for i in previous if i.name == xpath_tag) + 1
        components.append(xpath_tag if xpath_index == 1 else '%s[%d]' % (xpath_tag, xpath_index))
        child = parent
    components.reverse()
    return '/%s' % '/'.join(components)

then on python intepreter, run:

>>> import re
>>> import itertools
>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
>>> html = '<html><body><div><p>Hello World</p></div></body></html>'
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')
>>> elem = soup.find(string=re.compile('Hello World'))
>>> xpath_soup(elem)
'/html/body/div/p'

and you have the xpath of the given text

Upvotes: 6

Sathish Kumar VG
Sathish Kumar VG

Reputation: 2172

You can use contains()

  1. if you want get the element by using the text inside a tag(Example: h1) use
xpath('//h1[contains(text(),"Hello World")]')

2.If you want to get all the elements that contains text 'Hello World' use

xpath('//*[contains(text(),"Hello World")]')

Upvotes: 3

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