Xpath Parsing The Whole Page When I Specify Not To

I'm parsing websites using python and XPath. What I'm trying to do is to extract the href from the So here's how is the XML (page):

Solution 1:

An XPath starting with a / character means that it will be begin at the document root node. To create a relative XPath from the context node, you need to put a . before the /.

So your code should be:

posts = page.xpath("//div[@id='posts']/div[@align='center']")
for post in posts:
  print post.xpath(".//table/tr[1]/td[2]/a/@href")

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