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Asked: 2026-06-14T05:23:02+00:00

So I would like to get all the a tags inside all the td

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So I would like to get all the a tags inside all the td class=”banana” but only if this td contains the text “Today” 

import lxml.html
html = lxml.html.parse("http://www.sitetoscrape.com/")
a = html.xpath('//td[@class="banana"]//text[@text="Today"]//a')

print a

This returns an empty list, if I take out “//text[@text=”Today”]” it works, but I get back all the links inside all the td class=’banana’

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s hard to give an accurate answer without an example, but something like that should do it.

    import lxml.html as lh

html="""\
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<td class="banana">
<a>today</a>
<a></a>
<a></a>
</td>
<td class="banana">
<a>bar</a>
<a></a>
<a></a>
</td>
</body>
</html>"""

doc=lh.fromstring(html)

doc.xpath('.//td[contains(.,"today") and @class="banana"]/a')
Out[145]: [<Element a at 1c348b8>, <Element a at 1c34ae8>, <Element a at 1c34c00>]
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