remove characters in xpath / scrapy


remove characters in xpath / scrapy



I use scrapy to extract data and it generates the field (typeFacture) with (''), I want to extract the text and delete ('') to insert it into a database, I want to do that to help from XPATH



HTML code:


<td class="tNorm tSmall-xs">
<b>FACTURE</b>
<br>
''
Commission
''
</td>



my code:


item['typeFacture'] = [item.strip() for item in sel.xpath('//tbody/tr/td[5]/text()').extract()]



result:


'typeFacture': ['',
'',
'Commission',
'',
'',
'Commission',
'',
'',
'Commission',
'',
'',
'Commission',
'',
'',
'Abonnement']}





Don't put images, put the code.
– Mathieu
Jun 26 at 10:39





Please paste your html code, desired and actual result as text instead of links to images.
– running.t
Jun 26 at 10:42





thank you for your advice, I changed, do you have an idea about this problem?
– user_1330
Jun 26 at 10:49





something like this maybe item['typeFacture'] = [item.strip() for item in sel.xpath('//tbody/tr/td[5]/text()').extract() if item]
– bobrobbob
Jun 26 at 12:16


item['typeFacture'] = [item.strip() for item in sel.xpath('//tbody/tr/td[5]/text()').extract() if item]





Why is commision repeating ? Your html doesn't have it multiple times?
– Tarun Lalwani
Jun 26 at 12:43




1 Answer
1



I found the solution, but not with XPATH.
I use it in a simple python code, before inserting it in the database


item['typeFacture'] = list(filter(None, item['typeFacture']))






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