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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Oct 31, 2022 1 min read [\#css-selectors](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/css-selectors) [\#data-parsing](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/data-parsing) 

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Unfortunately, it's impossible to select values by text using standard CSS selectors. However, many CSS selector clients used in web scraping implement extra functions to enable this useful functionality. For more see:

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



 

    



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