How to formulate the Xpath expression from the following HTML

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Hi,

I would like to write an xpath expression to ONLY print the text for all the "class - insights type1". I don't need to print the ones that has "hide" .

Following CSS selector gives me all the tags for the Insights popup

driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("#body > div.side-module.expanded > div.content")

Can someone help with this please?

Thanks

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-02 18:42:55Z

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Here's how you can do this:

//div[@class="content"]/div[@class="insights type1"]

In python call find_elements_by_xpath() and get the text of each div found:

for div in driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[@class="content"]/div[@class="insights type1"]'):
    print div.text

Note that if you need only one single div, use just find_element_by_xpath():

div = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[@class="content"]/div[@class="insights type1"]')
print div.text

Also, if these divs can be outside of content div too - use //div[@class="insights type1"].

Hope that helps.

edited May 2, 2014 at 18:42

answered May 2, 2014 at 18:37

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user3587233 Over a year ago

I have one more [@class="insights type 2"] on the same level in the same div and I want to print both "type 1" and "type 2" classes. Will any of the following work? ("//div[@class='content'][/div[@class='insights type1']][/div[@class='insights type2']]") OR ("[//div[@class='content']/div[@class='insights type1']] and [//div[@class='content']/div[@class='insights type2']]")

alecxe Over a year ago

@user3587233 try this one: //div[@class="content"]/div[@class="insights type1" or @class="insights type2"]

user3587233 Over a year ago

stackoverflow.com/questions/23485484/…

user3587233 Over a year ago

hey, can you please help me with the above question. Thanks

delta24 · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-02 20:20:55Z

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You can use Chrome's Dev Tools for this.

Fire up the dev tools using F12, and just right-click the element whose xpath you want.

Then use lxml to process the xml tree.

edited May 2, 2014 at 20:20

answered May 2, 2014 at 18:56

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