Where it's @
In this exercise, you'll begin to write an XPath string using attributes to achieve a certain task; that task is to select the paragraph element containing the text "Thanks for Watching!". We've already created most of the XPath string for you.
Consider the following HTML:
<html>
<body>
<div id="div1" class="class-1">
<p class="class-1 class-2">Hello World!</p>
<div id="div2">
<p id="p2" class="class-2">Choose DataCamp!</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="div3" class="class-2">
<p class="class-2">Thanks for Watching!</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
We have created the function print_element_text()
for you, which will print any text contained in your element.
This exercise is part of the course
Web Scraping in Python
Exercise instructions
- Fill in the blanks in the XPath string to select the paragraph element containing the phrase: "Thanks for Watching!".
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Create an Xpath string to select desired p element
xpath = '//*[@id=____]/p'
# Print out selection text
print_element_text( xpath )