Trying to get table rows with Scrapy xpath

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I have some html that looks like the screenshot. I want to get the table rows. I have: ``` for table_row in response.selector.xpath("//*[@id = 'ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_CaseDetailParties1_gvParties']"): print table_row ``` In the command line I tried: ``` >>> table_row Out[5]: >>> table_row.xpath('/tbody') Out[6]: [] >>> table_row.xpath('//tbody') Out[7]: [] ``` Why am I unable to select the tbody?

Accepted Answer

`tbody` is generated by the browser, you don't get it with Scrapy downloader. Just get straight to the `tr` elements:

```
table_row.xpath('.//tr')
```

Trying to get table rows with Scrapy xpath

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