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Asked: 2026-05-30T00:55:03+00:00

I’m scraping a website. There’s a TD where the first child node is an

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I’m scraping a website. There’s a TD where the first child node is an H3 with an innertext of “Directs”. In the TD the other children (besides the H3) are the links. I know XPath is perfectly capable of just returning the A tag children from a TD that also contains an H3 with an innertext of “Directs”, I just can’t seem to get it right. The ugly work-around I came up with is the following, but I want to learn the best XPath method:

For Each thisH3 As HtmlNode In Doc.SelectNodes("//h3")
    If thisH3.InnerText = "Directs" Then
        For Each nChild As HtmlNode In thisH3.ParentNode.ChildNodes
            If nChild.Name = "a" Then
                Debug.Print(nChild.InnerText)
            End If
        Next
    End If
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  1. Editorial Team

    Use this XPath to retrieve all a in td which have h3 with value Directs:

    //td[h3 = 'Directs']/a
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