Can't do basic class-based extraction with XPATH

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wmqpmw

• October 16, 2019 22:37

I can't for the life of me get XPATH queries using classes to work for scraping URLs on a static webpage.
For example, a query like...

//A[@class="foo"]

...yields nothing. As far as I can tell it's a valid query that works just fine with simpler tools.

I'm simply scraping a singly page on Wiktionary, a very basic website, FYI.

Is there something unique about XPATH in Octoparse that I'm just not aware of?

Thanks very much

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  Emma

  • October 21, 2019 02:02

  Hi wmqpmw,

  Thank you for reaching out.

  Could you please send over the URL of this webpage for testing?

  Using a screenshot to show us where's the item that you tried to locate with this XPath on the webpage would be very helpful.

  Looking forward to your reply.

  Cheers,

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