CSS Selector & XPath Tester

Test CSS selectors and XPath expressions on HTML in real-time. See matched elements instantly, generate code for Python/JavaScript, and validate your selectors.

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Parsing HTML with Xpath

Introduction to xpath in the context of web-scraping. How to extract data from HTML documents using xpath, best practices and available tools.
Parsing HTML with CSS Selectors

Introduction to using CSS selectors to parse web-scraped content. Best practices, available tools and common challenges by interactive examples.
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