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 the last element using XPath the last()
function can be used in a predicate.
The last()
function returns true if the element is the last sibling in the current tree level. See this interactive example:
Unlike other programming languages, XPath doesn't support reverse indexing (i.e. [-1]
)
so the last()
function should be used to select the last element.