[FIXED] How to select text in a tag with xpath scrapy?

Issue

I want to select the text inside these tags, how can I select them ( i want to select the name and comment in a post on the Facebook fan page)?

• I have 2 div tags like this

<div class="_2b05">
    <a href="/profile.php?id=100003980635623&amp;fref=nf&amp;rc=p&amp;__tn__=R">
        <div class="_7_cb _3-8m">
        <i class="_3-8_ img sp_VfPHLawdqPX sx_0636a9"></i>
        Fan cứng
        </div>
        Hải Ka
        </a>
    </div><div data-commentid="511961943618859" data-sigil="comment-body">
    Ráng lướt rồi cũng sẽ qua<span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style="height: 16px; width: 16px; font-size: 16px; background-image: url(&quot;https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t81/1/16/1f60c.png&quot;)">😌</span></span></div>



<div class="_2b05">
    <a href="/leminhnhut2110?fref=nf&amp;rc=p&amp;__tn__=R">
    Lê Minh Nhựt</a>
    </div>
    <div data-commentid="511968943618159" data-sigil="comment-body">Làm ngụm Oolong cho phẻ m.n êijii</div>

i succeced to select comments by use xpath like this

response.xpath('//div[contains(@data-sigil,"comment-body")]/text()')

but with the name there are some problem with Fan tag. i used this xpath:

response.xpath('//div[contains(@data-sigil,"comment-body")]//preceding-sibling::div/a/text()')

it only show the comment's user name if not have Fan text. How can i skip Fan text and only choose text contain the name of user? Thanks

Some pic about it: with Fan text: without Fan text:

update: sorry, my problem is not fan text. You can read my conversation between me and sir F.Hoque to know more. Thanks

Solution

response.xpath('//div[contains(@data-sigil,"comment-body")]/text()')

Output:

(The above xpath selection will return the following output)

Ráng lướt rồi cũng sẽ qua
Làm ngụm Oolong cho phẻ m.n êijii

Select user name:

response.xpath('//div[@class="_2b05"]/a/text()')

Output:

 Hải Ka
Lê Minh Nhựt

Answered By - F.Hoque