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One of my biggest pet peeves with crawling the web is using XPath. Not because I have strong feelings about XPath, just that I use css selector syntax so much,
by bialecki 15y ago
One of my biggest pet peeves with crawling the web is using XPath. Not because I have strong feelings about XPath, just that I use css selector syntax so much, it's a pain I can't leverage that knowledge in this domain as well. Something like this is really awesome and going to make crawling the web more accessible.
- cosmic_shame 15y agoif you're using python, lxml has a cssselect module that makes this a breeze.
- bialecki 15y agoVery interesting, I'll definitely look into that. Thanks!
- badmash69 15y agoIf you are using Java to crawl the web , I would suggest using Jsoup for data extraction -- you can extract data with jquery like methods.