Scrapy .css select element with a specific attribute name and value

Question

How can Scrapy be used to select the text of an element that has a particular attribute name and value?

For example,

<span property="city">Montreal</span>

I tried the following but received a None

response.css('.span[property="city"]::text').extract_first()

Nehal J Wani · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-02 04:28:40Z

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You are making a small mistake. You need to drop the '.' before 'span':

In [6]: response.css('span[property="city"]::text').extract_first() 
Out[6]: u'Montreal'

answered Oct 2, 2016 at 4:28

Nehal J Wani

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