xpath
With chromium in developer mode right click on the node ⇒ “Copy XPath”
With lxml and python
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-dev
pip install lxml
print xpath of all elements
from lxml import html, etree htmltext="bla bla bla" doc=html.fromstring(htmltext) tree=etree.ElementTree(doc) for e in tree.iter(): print e.text,tree.getpath(e)
get element from xpath
from lxml import html htmltext="bla bla bla" xpath="/html/body/div/table[2]/tr[1]/td" doc=html.fromstring(htmltext) print doc.xpath(xpath)[0].text