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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) May 02, 2023 1 min read [\#xpath](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/xpath) 

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XPath allows interacting with any element's attribute such as `class`, `id`, `href` and any other through the `@` syntax. Attribute values then can be used in predicates using `=` or `contains()`. See these interactive examples:

Select attribute value, like the urls of `<a>` links:

&lt;html&gt; &lt;a href="/categories/1"&gt;category&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/product/1"&gt;product 1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/product/2"&gt;product 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/product/3"&gt;product 3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/html&gt; Or filter element based by attribute using `contains()` function:

&lt;html&gt; &lt;a href="/categories/1"&gt;category&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/product/1"&gt;product 1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/product/2"&gt;product 2&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/product/3"&gt;product 3&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/html&gt; 

 

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