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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:07:20+00:00

I have not found any documentation nor tutorial for that. Does anything like that

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I have not found any documentation nor tutorial for that. Does anything like that exist?

doc.xpath('//table/tbody[@id="threadbits_forum_251"]/tr')

The code above will get me any table, anywhere, that has a tbody child with the attribute id equal to “threadbits_forum_251”. But why does it start with double //? Why there is /tr at the end? See “Ruby Nokogiri Parsing HTML table II” for more details.

Can anybody tell me how to extract href, id, alt, src, etc., using Nokogiri? 

td[3]/div[1]/a/text()' <--- extracts text

How can I extract other things?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Seems you need to read a XPath Tutorial

    Your //table/tbody[@id="threadbits_forum_251"]/tr expression means:

    • // – Anywhere in your XML document
    • table/tbody – take a table element with a tbody child
    • [@id="threadbits_forum_251"] – where id attribute are equals to “threadbits_forum_251”
    • tr – and take its tr elements

    So, basically, you need to know:

    • attributes begins with @
    • conditions go inside [] brackets

    If I correcly understood that API, you can go with doc.xpath("td[3]/div[1]/a")["href"], or td[3]/div[1]/a/@href if there is just one <a> element.

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