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Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide Implement the power of Go to scrape and crawl data from the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789615708
Length 132 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vincent Smith Vincent Smith
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Searching using Cascading Style Sheets selectors

You can see how using a structured query language makes searching for, and retrieving, information much easier than basic string searches. However, XPath was designed for generic XML documents, not HTML. There is another structured query language that is made specifically for HTML. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were created to provide a way to add stylistic elements to HTML pages. In a CSS file, you would define a path to an element or multiple elements, and what describes the appearance. The definitions for the path to the element are called CSS selectors and are written specifically for HTML documents.

CSS selectors understand common attributes that we could use in searching HTML documents. In the previous XPath examples, we often used a query such as div[@class="some-class"] in order to search for elements with the class...

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