Find href children with specific text

Question

I wish to extract a link on a set of pages. Sometimes this link is defined on a page as:

//*[@id="mainlist"]/dl/dt[3]/a

and sometimes as:

//*[@id="mainlist"]/dl[2]/dt[2]/a

The text associated with the link is always "My special link".

Is there a way to match a href child of //*[@id="mainlist"] which has the text "My special link"?

https://stackoverflow.com/q/1549256/6241235 , https://stackoverflow.com/q/17329436/6241235 ..... — QHarr, Dec 01 '18 at 17:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '18 at 22:27

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Yes, you can do:

"//*[@id="mainlist"]//a[text()="My special link"]"

With cssselect you can do

"#mainlist a:contains("My special link")"

answered Dec 01 '18 at 22:27

pguardiario

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