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Asked: 2026-05-26T06:09:00+00:00

I am trying to find xpath form web page. I used 3 add-ons to

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I am trying to find xpath form web page. I used 3 add-ons to find xpath from web page
1) Xpather
2) FireFinder
3) Xpath checker
These returns some xpath. I copied those xpaths. In my application I am using nokogiri gem for screen scraping. If I psate those xpaths in my trial. That’s not responding.

I tried the following procedure also. If I inspect the element that will open in html tab of firefug. After that I right click that element and copied the xpath. This xpath also not responding.

Partially related to this issue already i asked question in stackoverflow. Phrogz answered my question. From his answer I red Xpath (w3schools) then I understood how to write xpath. But I can’t expect user also write the xpath. If any add-on or any other tool available to get xpath from webpage is useful.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m using firebug for that.

    But using nokogiri and mechanize I’ve never been a friend of XPath as a selector. I’m using CSS path instead. But the easiest and mostly secure way is using the id attribute if given.

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