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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Oct 28, 2022 1 min read [\#data-parsing](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/data-parsing) [\#headless-browser](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/headless-browser) [\#puppeteer](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/puppeteer) [\#xpath](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/xpath) 

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[XPath selectors](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/parsing-html-with-xpath) are one of the most popular ways to parse HTML pages when web scraping. In NodeJS and Puppeteer, XPath selectors can be used through the `page.$x` method:

javascript```javascript
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

async function run() {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.goto("https://httpbin.dev/html");

    // this will always return all found matches as array:
    let elements = await page.$x("//p");

    // to get element details we need to use the evaluate method
    // for text:
    let firstText = await elements[0].evaluate(element => element.textContent);
    console.log(firstText);

    // for other attributes:
    await page.goto("https://httpbin.dev/links/10/1");
    let linkElements = await page.$x("//a");
    let firstLink = await linkElements[0].evaluate(element => element.href);
    console.log(firstLink);

    browser.close();
}

run();
```



⚠ It's possible that this command will try to find elements *before* the page has fully loaded if it's a dynamic javascript page. For more see [How to wait for a page to load in Puppeteer?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-wait-for-page-to-load-in-puppeteer)

Also see: [How to find elements by CSS selector in Puppeteer?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-find-elements-by-css-selectors-in-puppeteer)



 

    



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