I have a question (dummy maybe). Suppose that I have the following snippet of code inside an html page with a bunch of other things (other script tags and html tags):
<scripttype="text/javascript">
var count = 0;
var active = false;
var mapData = {"points": [{"type":"origin","name":"6003","lnglat":"174.77851504231018,-41.278763329010459,0\n"}]};
</script>
And I would like to scrape only the content of mapData variable .
I am struggling with the xpath expression that I need to use in my xml configuration file to get only the mapData variable content. As I am new with XPath/Web-harvest, I am not sure if the solution is using xpath expression or maybe other approach (the web harvest script tag).
All the other times I have based my scraping on HTML tags and the name of the id attribute inside it, but now I only have a lot of script tags inside the file and I need to get the mapData variable.
Any thoughts?
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I have a question (dummy maybe). Suppose that I have the following snippet of code inside an html page with a bunch of other things (other script tags and html tags):
And I would like to scrape only the content of mapData variable .
I am struggling with the xpath expression that I need to use in my xml configuration file to get only the mapData variable content. As I am new with XPath/Web-harvest, I am not sure if the solution is using xpath expression or maybe other approach (the web harvest script tag).
All the other times I have based my scraping on HTML tags and the name of the id attribute inside it, but now I only have a lot of script tags inside the file and I need to get the mapData variable.
Any thoughts?