Question

is it possible to directly scrape information inside parentheses with xpath? Or should I filter it later with regular expressions? This is what the HTML looks like:

<span itemprop="title" class="active">Product name (UN1QU3 C0D3)</span>

With the following Xpath expression I can get everything inside this <span>:

$xpath->query('//*[@id="crumbtrail"]/div[5]/span');

Is it possible to directly get UN1QU3 C0D3 by adjusting my query? Or should I use a regular expression on this later?

Answer 1

You can use substring-after and substring-before to extract everything after ( and before ):

substring-before(substring-after(//*[@id="crumbtrail"]/div[5]/span/text(), "("), ")")