finding class with only part of the name

[zarize]

hi guys,

Let's say that i have:

1st Case

<div>
<class: test-abc-1>

2nd Case

<div>
<class: test-abc-2>

How to tell python to look for every div, with class with begins with test-abc?

So far i was very precise:

find('div', {'class': 'test-abc-1'})

but sometimes page can add random numbers to it's class so in this case the same element with the same kind of info can be found under different class

[ThiefOfTime]

Hi,
take a look at the documentation: https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/selectors.html
Search for the contains function. You can check if an attribute (for example a href) just contains a given string but is not matching it completely.
For example: (Taken from the documentation)

response.xpath('//a[contains(@href, "image")]/@href').getall()

here from every "a"-tag the href element is taken, but only when the href contains the string "image". Which would match all of these:

Output:
['image1.html',
 'image2.html',
 'image3.html',
 'image4.html',
 'image5.html']

In your case you could use something like this:

response.xpath('//div[contains(@class, "test-abc-")]').getall()

[zarize]

Thank you :)

re.compile(^text) helped me :D