Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners - XPath Attribute Selectors

The video tutorial explains how to use XPath selectors to select web elements based on their attributes and values. It covers the syntax for creating XPath selectors, including the use of the 'add' symbol for attributes and the use of relative paths. The tutorial also demonstrates how to select elements by class attribute, providing examples of selecting 'A' tags with a title attribute and 'P' tags with a class attribute.

What is the primary purpose of using XPath in web element selection?

• To store data in a database

• To style web elements

• To select web elements based on attributes

• To create animations

Which symbol is used in XPath to denote any attribute?

• %

• &

• @

• #

In XPath, how do you specify an attribute name?

• By using curly braces

• By using square brackets

• By using parentheses

• By prefixing with an '@' symbol

What is the correct way to select a paragraph element with a specific class using XPath?

• Use the tag name followed by the class name

• Use the tag name and specify the class attribute with '='

• Use the class name directly

• Use the tag name with a '#' symbol

What does the XPath expression '//p[@class='price']' select?

• All paragraph elements

• All elements with a price attribute

• Paragraph elements with a class attribute of 'price'

• All elements with a class attribute