Scraping Webpage

Jul 29, 2019
Apr 22, 2020

Scrape info from webpages using xpaths

Want to scrape all character names from game of thrones show

$x('//*[@id="mw-content-text"]/div/table[2]/tbody/tr/td[2]/a/text()').forEach(function(el){console.log(el)})

$x("//td[@class="first"]/a").map(function(el){return el.text}).join("\n")

Select the information you want using xpath
print output to console
save output to a file¹

Footnotes

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Rightclick and save chrome dev-tools output to a file ^[return]