You want to use the xpath expression
'//*[@id="product-view-container"]/@data-pid'
Optionally you can use a css selector which in most cases gives a shorter
expression:
pl.add_css('product_id', '#product-view-container::attr(data-pid)')
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:59 PM, BrendanB <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im just trying extract data form a site which uses data-pid to store some
> information. I need to "extract" the information from this element. But I
> cannot get it to extract data
>
> here is the sample html:
> <div id="product-view-container" class="product cfx" data-pid="3753">
>
> and code to extract:
> pl.add_xpath('product_id',
> ".//*[@id='product-view-container']/@*[starts-with(name(), 'data-pid')]")
>
>
> thanks
> Brendan
>
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