lookup xpath (other?) to value in html

2013-12-31 Thread Vincent Davis
I have a about 255 data fields that I am trying to verify on thousands of webpages. For example: value: 255,000 sqft: 1800 Since I have the correct answer for several pages I would like to lookup get the location (xpath?) of the data/field value in the page so that I can check other pages.

Re: lookup xpath (other?) to value in html

2013-12-31 Thread Jason Friedman
I have a about 255 data fields that I am trying to verify on thousands of webpages. For example: value: 255,000 sqft: 1800 Since I have the correct answer for several pages I would like to lookup get the location (xpath?) of the data/field value in the page so that I can check other

Re: lookup xpath (other?) to value in html

2013-12-31 Thread Vincent Davis
I'm not sure what you are looking for. Do you have a sample web page, and can you show us the output you'd like to see from that webpage? Have you looked at http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/? For example this URL; http://jeffco.us/ats/displaygeneral.do?sch=001690 The the land

Re: lookup xpath (other?) to value in html

2013-12-31 Thread Jason Friedman
For example this URL; http://jeffco.us/ats/displaygeneral.do?sch=001690 The the land sqft is 11082. Google Chrome gives me the xpath to that data as; //*[@id=content]/p[1]/table[4]/tbody/tr[2]/td[8] What I would like to do (using python) is given 11082 at what xpath can that be found? (may

Re: lookup xpath (other?) to value in html

2013-12-31 Thread Vincent Davis
Which Chrome extension are you using to get that path? Built in, right click on source copy xpath​​ Ya that gets square footage and I like how you did it, are you interested in doing that for all information on the page and also the historical pages ;-) Since I have the data for some of the