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  Re: lookup xpath (other?) to value in html Vincent Davis <vincent@vincentdavis.net> - 2013-12-31 20:00 -0700

#62945 — Re: lookup xpath (other?) to value in html

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> I'm not sure what you are looking for.  Do you have a sample web page,
> and can you show us the output you'd like to see from that webpage?
> Have you looked at http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/?


For example this URL;
http://jeffco.us/ats/displaygeneral.do?sch=001690
The the land sqft is 11082.
Google Chrome gives me the xpath to that data as;
//*[@id="content"]/p[1]/table[4]/tbody/tr[2]/td[8]

What I would like to do (using python) is given 11082 at what xpath can
that be found? (may be more that one)
The examples I can find using google refer to, given xpath what is the
value (the opposite of what I want)

Vincent Davis


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I have a about 255 data fields that I am trying to verify on thousands of
> > webpages.
> > For example:
> > value: 255,000
> > sqft: 1800
> > ....
> > Since I have the correct answer for several pages I would like to lookup
> get
> > the location (xpath?) of the data/field value in the page so that I can
> > check other pages.
>
> I'm not sure what you are looking for.  Do you have a sample web page,
> and can you show us the output you'd like to see from that webpage?
> Have you looked at http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/?
>

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