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How to use XPath to extract web data
Valdir Stumm Junior
6 Mins
October 27, 2016
Let's start with what is XPath? XPath is a powerful language that is often used for scraping the web. It allows you to select nodes or compute values from an XML or HTML document and is actually one of the languages that you can use to extract web data using Scrapy.