Xpath working on browser not in zennoposter

[cherubin]

Hi,

I want to use the following xpath to scrap content in web page however it doesn't work in Zenno.

//text()[not(ancestor::select)][not(ancestor::script)][not(ancestor::style)][not(ancestor::noscript)][not(ancestor::form)][string-length(.) > 10]

Do you know why ?

 

[orka13]

Maybe because even simple //text() works only in Zenno-Chrome

 

[cherubin]

So maybe a warning when using xpath expression without chrome could be good option. I'll test

 

[VladZen]

Not sure how did you use it...
Xpath is working with these methods in ZennoPoster:
https://help.zennolab.com/en/v5/zennoposter/5.11.7.0/webframe.html#topic421.html
https://help.zennolab.com/en/v5/zennoposter/5.11.7.0/webframe.html#topic28.html
https://help.zennolab.com/en/v5/zennoposter/5.11.7.0/webframe.html#topic101.html

 

[cherubin]

Your links are for C# only, no ? But now you have the parse data option by css selector or xpath, that's what i want to use.

 

[VladZen]

Your links are for C# only, no ? But now you have the parse data option by css selector or xpath, that's what i want to use.

You are using latest ZP7 already... nice
New Xpath works in both - Firefox and Chrome... Do you get real results with your Xpath expression in Chrome?

 

[cherubin]

I planned to update this evening to 7 but finally i'm doing it now, following the last amazing update we received !
But you already have the parse data option in 5.33.

This xpath expression is built to scrap content of webpage without piece of script/code etc. Not perfect but closed to, like your article recognition module. However i had an issue with it, it gets script content of an iframe that's why i try to find a xpath alternative.