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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Nov 03, 2022 1 min read [\#data-parsing](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/data-parsing) 

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Dynamic class names are becoming increasingly common in modern web landscape which can be a tough challenge in web scraping. Let's take a look at this dynamic class example and how can we parse it:

html```html
<div class="pdd fg-black">
    <h2>Product Details</h2>
    <div class="fqv b1">
        <div class="fz g1">Price</div>
        <div class="g2 cvx">22.55</div>
    </div>
</div>
```



Usually, we'd see some human-like class names that we can rely on using [CSS Selectors](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/parsing-html-with-css), however in this case the class names look non-sensical which means these classes are most likely dynamic. Dynamic classes can change at any moment which would break our scraper.

The best way to deal with this issue is to use text-based XPath parsing. In our example above to select the price we can find HTML elements by text and relative relationship. See this interactive example:

## Product Details

Price

22.55





In this example, we select an element that has the text of `Price` and then select the first following sibling for the price value. With this approach even if the class names will change our parser will continue to extract data successfully!

For more on text-based parsing see:

- [How to select elements by text in XPath?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-text-in-xpath)
- [How to find HTML elements by text value with BeautifulSoup](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-find-html-elements-by-text-with-beautifulsoup)



 

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