Ultimate XPath Cheatsheet for HTML Parsing in Web Scraping
Ultimate companion for HTML parsing using XPath selectors. This cheatsheet contains all syntax explanations with interactive examples.
Counting selection can be a very powerful feature in XPath when parsing web scraped HTML pages.
Selection count can be used to navigate complex trees where parsing by attributes or values is not possible.
For this count()
function can be used. See these interactive examples:
The count()
function is a great way to navigate bare HTML trees that otherwise might appear unparsable.