Introduction to XPath.

Brendan Ferris
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
6 min readMay 9, 2021

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Similar to regular expressions, Xpath can be thought of as a language for finding information in and XML/HTML document. It has many uses, but personally I use it most for developing web crawlers and grabbing information from websites. We’re going to go over the basics of the language, and how to grab the content you need from a document. In order to follow along with this tutorial, you can use the console in your Chrome Developer Tools (any browser…

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