Web Scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup
Beautifulsoup is one the most popular libraries in web scraping. In this tutorial, we'll take a hand-on overview of how to use it, what is it good for and explore a real -life web scraping example.
No, Python's BeautifulSoup doesn't support XPath selectors despite supporting lxml backend which can perform XPath queries. As an alternative we recommend using parsel which is also using lxml but supports XPath selectors:
from parsel import Selector
selector = Selector(text='<div class="price">22.85</div>')
print(selector.xpath("//div[@class='price']/text()").get())
"22.85"
Beautifulsoup is one the most popular libraries in web scraping. In this tutorial, we'll take a hand-on overview of how to use it, what is it good for and explore a real -life web scraping example.
