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I might be wrong, but xpath has contains, where you can look for a text content inside an element, which I don't think CSS can do
by tommica 5y ago
I might be wrong, but xpath has contains, where you can look for a text content inside an element, which I don't think CSS can do
- mdaniel 5y agoYeah, for sure XPath is the more powerful of the two, so much so that Scrapy's parsel library parses CSS selectors and transforms then into the equivalent XPath for execution To the best of my knowledge, CSS selectors care only about the structure of the page, lightly dipping its toes in the content only for attributes and things like :first-char and :first-line