XPath syntax to extract URL from HTMLNode using HTMLAgilityPack?

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What is the proper XPath syntax to grab the value of the href attribute from the following HTMLNode:

<a target="_blank" class="monkeys" href="http://someurl.com" id="123">
    <span class="title">Monkeys are flying all over!</span>
</a>

ase · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-27 21:08:04Z

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//a[@id='123']/@href

works for me.

answered Aug 27, 2010 at 21:08

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LesterDove · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-27 21:08:08Z

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Is //a@href what you're looking for?

Using HTMLAgilityPack, the method you'd use is:

HTMLAgilityPack.HTMLNode.GetAttributeValue("href", "")

answered Aug 27, 2010 at 21:08

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ase Over a year ago

That is invalid, you probably want //a/@href, which will find the href attribute of any number of a elements. I believe (as reflected in my answer) that "Darth" is looking for that specific a element.

robnardo Over a year ago

i am using HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode.GetAttributeValue() but it does not seem to work for attributes that are defined using single quotes like this: <a href='adomain.com/page'>link</a>. Any ideas?

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