How to parse html using XPath and Swift 2.0?

Question

I am trying to parse some data form a website but I just can't get it working.

I tried NDHpple, TFHpple, Kanna all of them without success.

I want to parse:

<td class="date">17:08</td>

And the XPath I get to it, using Firebug, is:

/html/body/section/div/section/article/div[1]/div[2]/div/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[1]

Right now I am using Kanna and my code is this:

@IBAction func btnLoadData(sender: NSButton) {

    if let doc = Kanna.HTML(url: (NSURL(string: "the_site_url")!), encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) {


        // Search for nodes by XPath
        for link in doc.xpath("/html/body/section/div/section/article/div[1]/div[2]/div/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[1]") {
            print(link.text)
            print(link["href"])
        }
    }
}

So, anyone can help me?

what exactly you want . 17:08?

Shubham Jain
– Shubham Jain

2015-10-15 07:20:49 +00:00
Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 7:20 — Shubham Jain
– Shubham Jain, Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 7:20
@ShubhamJain Exactly.

Marco Almeida
– Marco Almeida

2015-10-15 07:21:53 +00:00
Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 7:21 — Marco Almeida
– Marco Almeida, Commented Oct 15, 2015 at 7:21

Marco Almeida · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-15 15:21:57Z

1

It seemed that it wasn't not working because I was trying to load from a dynamic data webpage. I tried the same code and XPath with a static data webpage that has the same data I wanted to grab and it worked like a charm.

answered Oct 15, 2015 at 15:21

Marco Almeida

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