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How to fetch information from a html page using xpath in python
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python xpath example
from lxml import etree
tree = etree.HTML(html_content)
result = tree.xpath('.//*[@id="BVRRRatingSummarySourceID"]/div/div/div/div[1]/span/span/text()')
#result might be an array or just text depending upon what xpath was
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