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Re:What Happened to XPath? by Pelic4n on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:06AM (#24942299)
Can you point out the resources you used for learning ? I wrote a lot of scrappers and am knee-deep in css hacks.
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Re:What Happened to XPath? by deckard1 on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:41PM (#24944827)
If you know CSS well, I find this useful:

https://devhints.io/xpath

The problem with xpath is that you rarely use it, so you forget how to do certain things. Then you have to go and re-learn when you need it. Rinse and repeat.

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Re:What Happened to XPath? by minxomat on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:11AM (#24942349)
Take a look at xidel.
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