parsel.selector — Scrapy 2.5.1 documentation
docs.scrapy.org › en › latestOct 06, 2021 · def xpath (self, xpath, namespaces = None, ** kwargs): """ Call the ``.xpath()`` method for each element in this list and return their results flattened as another :class:`SelectorList`. ``query`` is the same argument as the one in :meth:`Selector.xpath` ``namespaces`` is an optional ``prefix: namespace-uri`` mapping (dict) for additional prefixes to those registered with ``register_namespace ...
Selectors — Scrapy 2.5.1 documentation
docs.scrapy.org › en › latestJul 23, 2014 · BeautifulSoup is a very popular web scraping library among Python programmers which constructs a Python object based on the structure of the HTML code and also deals with bad markup reasonably well, but it has one drawback: it’s slow. lxml is an XML parsing library (which also parses HTML) with a pythonic API based on ElementTree. (lxml is ...