Sorry guys, Forgot to mentioned. All these xpath is able to identify the elemenet using firepath add-on of firefox.
*//video * *//video[contains(@class,'html5-main-video')]/@src* *//div[@class='html5-video-container']/video/@src* *//div[@id='movie_player']/div[1]/video/@src* *//div[@id='player-api']/div[1]/div[1]/video/@src* *However none of them is working in scrapy ???* Gaurang Shah Blog: qtp-help.blogspot.com Mobile: +91 738756556 On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:41 PM, bruce <badoug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you able to effectively create an xpath using your browser's xpath/dev > tools? > > in firefox, you can use dom inspector, there are others as well, not sure > of your browser.. > > In other words, is the issue with the "video" element, or something else > in your xpath? > > If you can resolve the xpath with a separate tool, that should give you > direction to solve the issue. > > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Gaurang shah <gaurangns...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> I am trying to scrap the youtube site. And somehow the xpath which >> fetches the video src is not working in scrapy. >> >> Url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EFnX1UkXVU >> >> >> following xpaths is not working >> *//video * >> *//video[contains(@class,'html5-main-video')]/@src* >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--_vqbGQxgWg/VKFLFyraflI/AAAAAAAACLY/2352f1VU0ds/s1600/Image%2B004.jpg> >> I am able to retrive xpath till,* //div[@id='player-api']*, after that >> it's dead end. scrapy is not able to find any more node in this. However >> there are nodes inside that as well. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "scrapy-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to scrapy-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to scrapy-users@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/scrapy-users/nGisMymqofU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > scrapy-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to scrapy-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to scrapy-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to scrapy-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
