You missed the u prefix: In [28]: sel.xpath(u'//span[text()="Plot Size (m²)"]') Out[28]: [<Selector xpath=u'//span[text()="Plot Size (m\xb2)"]' data=u'<span>Plot Size (m\xb2)</span>'>]
You could use \xb2 instead of ² as well. Cheers, Rolando On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Mario <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having issues with getting some values from this page: > > > http://www.remax-malta.com/Maisonette-For-Sale-St-Pauls-Bay-North_240041024-145 > > To be more specific here's a picture of what I can(colored green) and > can't(colored red) scrape: > > http://i.imgur.com/xT6wTtl.png > > Example of writing xpath for Total rooms is: > > response.xpath('//span[text()="Total Rooms:"]/preceding::span/text()'). > extract()[-1] > > This prints: u'3' which is value I'm after. > > But when I try to write xpath for Plot Size (m²) like this one: > > response.xpath('//span[text()="Plot Size (m²)"]/preceding::span/text()'). > extract()[-1] > > > I get this error: > > ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL > bytes or control characters > > > I know I get this because of '²' character. Can somebody help me out with > writing proper xpath? Or maybe there's another way of getting value from > xpath? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "scrapy-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
