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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Oct 24, 2022 1 min read [\#beautifulsoup](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/beautifulsoup) [\#data-parsing](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/data-parsing) [\#xpath](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/xpath) 

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No, Python's BeautifulSoup doesn't support XPath selectors despite supporting `lxml` backend which can perform XPath queries.

To use XPath selectors either `lxml` or `parsel` packages must be used.

[parsel](https://pypi.org/project/parsel/) is a modern wrapper around `lxml` which makes xpath selections very easy:

python```python
from parsel import Selector

selector = Selector(text='<div class="price">22.85</div>')
print(selector.xpath("//div[@class='price']/text()").get())
"22.85"
```



Alternatively, lxml can be used directly:

python```python
from lxml import html

tree = html.fromstring('<div class="price">22.85</div>')
print(tree.xpath("//div[@class='price']/text()"))
"22.85"
```





 

    



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