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fobus
fobus

Reputation: 2058

Scrapy - How to get XPATH node as text

I want to get a node as string from a XHTML node.

for example

<html>
    <body>
        <div>
            <input type="text" value="myText"></input>
            <input type="text" value="myText" disabled="true"></input>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

I want to get two input's XHTML text as string in an array, like this?

["<input type="text" value="myText"></input>"
"<input type="text" value="myText" disabled="true"></input>"]

Is this possible with scrapys XPATH selector?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 104

Answers (1)

Casper
Casper

Reputation: 1435

Not completely what you're asking for as it only shows the opening tag and for some reason it removes ="true" from the last input, but it might be enough depending on what you're using it for.

>>> response.xpath('//div/input').extract()
[u'<input type="text" value="myText">', u'<input type="text" value="myText" disabled>']

Upvotes: 1

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