CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonseleniumxpathscrapy
Yan Zhang
Yan Zhang

Reputation: 383

How to exact text from one div?

Can anyone help me solve this problem? I have a paragraph like this:

row.exact()

    u'<tr bgcolor="#f5f9fc">\n\t\t\t<td valign="top" style="text-align:left;"><a href="/search/sites/ABB1836.asp">ABB</a></td>\n\t\t\t<td nowrap valign="top">+1 713 243 7160</td>\n\t\t\t<td valign="top" style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.abb.com" target="_blank">www.abb.com</a></td>\t\t\n\t\t</tr>'

I need to get the company name, telephone, and web. I'm trying this code:

row.xpath(".//td[1]").extract()

Yes it's ok, we can get this below:

[u'<td valign="top" style="text-align:left;"><a href="/search/sites/ABB1836.asp">ABB</a></td>']

It's still not the text I want, but when I try adding the code text(), I get nothing. 

row.xpath(".//td[1]/text()").extract()

It only returns empty:

[]

Can someone tell me the reason for this? How can I solve this problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (2)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193308

All the three fields company name, telephone, and web i.e. the texts ABB, +1 713 243 7160 and www.abb.com are within three different child <a> nodes of three different parent <td> nodes. To extract the texts you can use the following solutions:

  • ABB:

    row.xpath(".//td[1]/a/text()").extract()

  • +1 713 243 7160:

    row.xpath(".//td[2]/a/text()").extract()

  • www.abb.com:

    row.xpath(".//td[3]/a/text()").extract()

Upvotes: 1

theGuy
theGuy

Reputation: 693

Try 

//tr/td[1]/a/text() // for Company Name
//tr/td[2]/text() // Telephone
//tr/td[3]/a/text() // Website

Upvotes: 0

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