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.
To select elements of a specific position the position()
function can be used with a predicate:
Note that using position()
when web scraping is not recommended as HTML element position is likely to change. Instead other methods like selection by attribute value is a more reliable way if applicable.