[FIXED] Can't retrieve text from a span class using Scrapy

Issue

I am having trouble extracting a rating text inside a span class.

Already tried the following XPATH:

response.xpath("//i/span[@class='a-icon-alt']/text()").getall()
response.xpath('//span[@data-hook="rating-out-of-text"]/text()').getall()

I have the following HTML:

<div class="a-fixed-left-grid AverageCustomerReviews a-spacing-small">
  <div class="a-fixed-left-grid-inner" style="padding-left:105px">
    <div class="a-fixed-left-grid-col a-col-left" style="width:105px;margin-left:-105px;float:left;">
      <i data-hook="average-star-rating" class="a-icon a-icon-star-medium a-star-medium-4 averageStarRating">
        <span class="a-icon-alt">3,8 de 5 estrelas</span>
      </i>
    </div>
    <div class="a-fixed-left-grid-col aok-align-center a-col-right" style="padding-left:0%;float:left;">
      <div class="a-row">
        <span class="a-size-base a-nowrap">
          <span data-hook="rating-out-of-text" class="a-size-medium a-color-base">3,8 de 5</span>
        </span>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

If it helps, the HTML was extracted from this page:

https://www.amazon.com.br/Cookpad-inc/dp/B086MT7THB/ref=sr_1_12?brr=1&qid=1662666482&rd=1&s=alexa-skills&sr=1-12

Solution

I was able to grab it using this: The span isn't the immediate parent of the text, so using the // means it will pull the text from any decendant of the element.

response.xpath('//span[@data-hook="rating-out-of-text"]//text()').getall()

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Update

If you are using scrapy... a great way of finding out if the scrapy response is different than what you observe in your webbrowser is using the open_in_browser function. Then you can actually see what page looks like from your spiders point of view.

for example:

import scrapy
from scrapy.utils.response import open_in_browser

class MySpider(scrapy.Spider):
    ...
    ...
    start_urls = [...]

    def parse(self, response):
        open_in_browser(response)
        ...

Answered By - Alexander