Converting XPath to CSS Selector

Question

I am using Jsoup to scrape a page for data but the data is not in a specific tag.

<strong>LABEL IS HERE</strong> DATA IS HERE

Using an XPath I am able to get a path //*[@id="center-text"]/text()[1] but unfortunately chrome does not allow me to copy the CSS Path.

I can get a CSS Path for the <strong> LABEL IS HERE</strong> but not for the other text. Is there a way to get this data using CSS Selector language?

Sample data

<div id="center-text"> 
      <strong>ifno</strong> data&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <strong>ifno</strong> data&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <strong>Tifno</strong> data
      <br> 
      <strong>ifno</strong> data&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <strong>ifno</strong> data&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <strong>ifno</strong> data 
</div>

@VoodooCoder take a look at my edit that is the div where the data is comming from. — washcloth
– washcloth, Commented Sep 19, 2015 at 20:51

antoniodvr · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-19 21:34:59Z

2

In JSOUP you can use nextSibling method:

public Node nextSibling()

Get this node's next sibling.

Returns: next sibling, or null if this is the last sibling

You should get out by:

Elements elements = doc.select("div[id=\"center-text\"] strong");

for(Element element : elements) {
    System.out.println("nextSibling: " + element.nextSibling());
}

The result will be:

nextSibling:  data&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
nextSibling:  data&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
nextSibling:  data
nextSibling:  data&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
nextSibling:  data&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
nextSibling:  data

answered Sep 19, 2015 at 21:34

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2 Comments

washcloth Over a year ago

This answer is correct but i did have to change your XPath to css. It should be #center-text. But otherwise it works. Thank you very much.

luksch Over a year ago

The general problem underlying this is that you can't select a Text-Node with CSS selectors: stackoverflow.com/questions/5688712/…

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