XPath Selector to get IMDB release Date
Question:
I am practicing using Xpath selectors, and it seems to be very difficult to extract the release date from this website. I can get to the div class=’txt-block’, but not past that. I am trying to the get the date underneath it. E.g. "18 July 2008 (USA)"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/?ref_=adv_li_tt
I can get up to this part. But I cannot get the text below.
Answers:
Just use :
//a[contains(@title,'release')]/text()
or
//h4[contains(.,'Release')]/parent::*/text()[normalize-space()]
You can use this expression to test in Chrome inspector:
$x(".//h4[contains(.,'Release')]/parent::*/text()[normalize-space()]")
I am practicing using Xpath selectors, and it seems to be very difficult to extract the release date from this website. I can get to the div class=’txt-block’, but not past that. I am trying to the get the date underneath it. E.g. "18 July 2008 (USA)"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/?ref_=adv_li_tt
I can get up to this part. But I cannot get the text below.
Just use :
//a[contains(@title,'release')]/text()
or
//h4[contains(.,'Release')]/parent::*/text()[normalize-space()]
You can use this expression to test in Chrome inspector:
$x(".//h4[contains(.,'Release')]/parent::*/text()[normalize-space()]")