[Answers](https://scrapfly.io/blog) / [xpath](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/xpath) / [How to select elements by attribute value in XPath?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-attribute-value) # How to select elements by attribute value in XPath? by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) May 02, 2023 1 min read [\#xpath](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/xpath) [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-attribute-value "Share on LinkedIn") 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 `` links: <html> <a href="/categories/1">category</a> <a href="/product/1">product 1</a> <a href="/product/2">product 2</a> <a href="/product/3">product 3</a> </html> Or filter element based by attribute using `contains()` function: <html> <a href="/categories/1">category</a> <a href="/product/1">product 1</a> <a href="/product/2">product 2</a> <a href="/product/3">product 3</a> </html> Table of Contents Join the Newsletter Get monthly web scraping insights Scale Your Web Scraping Anti-bot bypass, browser rendering, and rotating proxies, all in one API. Start with 1,000 free credits. No credit card required 1,000 free API credits Anti-bot bypass included [Start Free](https://scrapfly.io/register) [View Docs](https://scrapfly.io/docs/onboarding) Not ready? Get our newsletter instead. ## Explore this Article with AI [ ChatGPT ](https://chat.openai.com/?q=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-attribute-value) [ Gemini ](https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&aep=11&q=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-attribute-value) [ Grok ](https://x.com/i/grok?text=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-attribute-value) [ Perplexity ](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-attribute-value) [ Claude ](https://claude.ai/new?q=Summarize%20this%20page%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-select-elements-by-attribute-value) ## Related Articles [ data-parsing xpath ### Ultimate XPath Cheatsheet for HTML Parsing in Web Scraping Ultimate companion for HTML parsing using XPath selectors. This cheatsheet contains all syntax explanations with interac... ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/xpath-cheatsheet) [ python data-parsing ### Parsing HTML with Xpath Introduction to xpath in the context of web-scraping. How to extract data from HTML documents using xpath, best practice... ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/parsing-html-with-xpath) [ python ai ### Find Web Elements with ChatGPT and XPath or CSS selectors ChatGPT is becoming a popular assistant in web scraper development. In this article, we'll take a look at how to use it ... ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/posts/finding-web-selectors-with-chatgpt) ## Related Questions - [ Q How to select elements by class in XPath? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-class-in-xpath) - [ Q How to find elements without a specific attribute in BeautifulSoup? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-find-elements-without-attribute-in-beautifulsoup) - [ Q How to select elements by ID in XPath? ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-select-elements-by-id-in-xpath) - [ Q How to find HTML elements by text value with BeautifulSoup ](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-find-html-elements-by-text-with-beautifulsoup) Scale your web scraping effortlessly, **1,000 free credits** [Start Free](https://scrapfly.io/register)