HTML Parsing with XPath

This function uses the lxml library to parse HTML content, finds matching elements based on the provided XPath expression, and returns the text content of these elements.

Technology Stack : lxml

Code Type : HTML parsing

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def parse_html_with_xpath(html, xpath):
    from lxml import etree
    
    # Parse the HTML content
    parser = etree.HTMLParser()
    tree = etree.fromstring(html, parser)
    
    # Find elements using XPath
    elements = tree.xpath(xpath)
    
    # Return the elements as a list of strings
    return [element.text for element in elements]