XPath Helper
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Description from extension meta
Extract, edit, and evaluate XPath queries with ease.
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XPath Helper makes it easy to extract, edit, and evaluate XPath queries on any webpage.
IMPORTANT: After installing this extension, you must reload any existing tabs or restart Chrome for the extension to work.
Instructions:
1. Open a new tab and navigate to any webpage.
2. Hit Ctrl-Shift-X (or Command-Shift-X on OS X), or click the XPath Helper button in the toolbar, to open the XPath Helper console.
3. Hold down Shift as you mouse over elements on the page. The query box will continuously update to show the XPath query for the element below the mouse pointer, and the results box will show the results for the current query.
4. If desired, edit the XPath query directly in the console. The results box will immediately reflect your changes.
5. Repeat step (2) to close the console.
If the console gets in your way, hold down Shift and then move your mouse over it; it will move to the opposite side of the page.
One word of caution: When rendering HTML tables, Chrome inserts artificial <tbody> tags into the DOM, which will consequently show up in queries extracted by this extension.
Latest reviews
- Anuj Kalra
- Been using it for years for writing and testing custom xpaths
- Vadym Strutovskyi
- The extension was so perfect, I've been using it for a couple of years, I hope it will be updated and adapted for the new rules
- Alexej Plate
- XPath Tester extension seems like a working and better alternative
- Patrick
- Not working anymore with latest chrome, found Selectorshub as best replacement for xpath helper.
- Katie Watson
- Great, but soon to be disabled by Chrome so has stopped working on my desktop - would be useful to resolve this.
- Hakim Maghraoui (h4k333m)
- Works as expected at first try.
- P G
- good, but shift shortcut is bad。
- Tony Stark
- The best extension for working with XPATH.
- Niti Thummar
- You need to refresh your page first. then hit Ctrl-Shift-X it'll open the extension. Now press Shift and hover on the webpage you'll see the XPath.
- Zex Zen
- It's really working. Just hold 'shift' and hover your cursor then that's all. Rmb to refresh the page before trying. Perfect extension :)
- Christopher Söhngen
- Thank you for developing this plugin! I am no developer, I tried to “generate” a RSS-Feed in Freshrss-App for a website that is not offering a feed. The only way is to webscrape the site via xpath. Your plugin allowed me to understand the syntax. Thank you!
- Kavyansh Khaitan
- Guys it works just try refreshing the page if you just installed this extension
- Anton
- Ctrl+Shift+X and clicking on the extension do nothing
- Anthony Achille
- Does absolutely nothing when pressing ctr-shift-X
- Bongakonke Mzimela
- Its works, just make sure to press Ctrl+Shift+X to summon the console and hold Shift then hover over elements to get XPath
- Derick Mommsen
- Does absolutely nothing
- Sebastian Arcq
- It could be nice, but this feature "If the console gets in your way, hold down Shift and then move your mouse over it; it will move to the opposite side of the page." makes it virtually unusable. Whenever you go to the console and type in something that requires the shift key, the console moves and everything you have typed in is lost. It's truely stunning how such a glaring problem is not spotted by the developer.
- Juraj Korbacka
- I've been using it for 3+ years and it is perfect tool for testing and writng custom xpaths. Presently looking for such alternative for firefox. Any suggestions?
- Michael Charvet
- I'm not getting results from this at all, literally nothing in the interface when I selection an element on a web page.
- Michael Charvet
- I'm not getting results from this at all, literally nothing in the interface when I selection an element on a web page.
- marswillrule
- I use it all the time, but I hate when I accidentally change the position and lose the path I'm putting together. Very frustrating.
- marswillrule
- I use it all the time, but I hate when I accidentally change the position and lose the path I'm putting together. Very frustrating.
- 吴罗平（lopins）
- 可以优化一下：Xpath路径缩短，使用最优最短路径且保证唯一性
- Denis Alain
- Fonctionne bien et aide à déchiffrer le Xpath
- Daniel Berrios
- Hasta ahora, se ha convertido en mi herramienta favorita para usar rutas xpath. ¡Funciona muy fácil!
- Matt Jennings
- If you want to test xpaths, this is the tool to use.
- Matt Jennings
- If you want to test xpaths, this is the tool to use.
- Christopher Johnson
- Doesn't work. Interface not showing up at all. Useless extension. Don't waste your time.
- Christopher Johnson
- Doesn't work. Interface not showing up at all. Useless extension. Don't waste your time.
- Semen Orlov
- It works Ok, but it's quite difficult open extension while a page is loading.
- Semen Orlov
- It works Ok, but it's quite difficult open extension while a page is loading.
- Andrea De Simone
- doesn't work with dynamic IDs, should have an option to select by element position rather than IDs
- Andrea De Simone
- doesn't work with dynamic IDs, should have an option to select by element position rather than IDs
- rehab business EG
- Nice!
- rehab business EG
- Nice!
- K T
- 对于新手很好
- Bear Biu
- 简单好用！！不需要F12就能直接用了，也不用头大的看着一堆html代码了。按shift直接就能把某个元素的xpath根路径提取出来，还能直接编辑测试，完全满足我的需求。
- cas lu
- 特好用，在抓取一些资源的时候，对我的帮助很大！
- Angelia Van
- 刷新页面界面就会消失，如何保持页面不消失呢
- 安卡
- 很实用，用来检测表达式
- Jan Haubold
- Does what it should
- Jan Haubold
- Does what it should
- Carlos Rey
- not working
- Carlos Rey
- not working
- Takuya Matsuda (maztak)
- 機能しますがたまに新しくタブで開いたり再読み込みしないと機能しないときがあるようです。また実際はHTMLタグも含めて抽出されるのにResultではtext()が表示されちゃうなど若干の実際との挙動違いがあるので星4つ。
- Dwza (Dwza)
- Does not work at all
- Dwza (Dwza)
- Does not work at all
- Andrei Andreichuk
- Does exactly what is needed with no alternative I am aware of. Simple and great in it! No bells and whistles needed.
- Andrei Andreichuk
- Does exactly what is needed with no alternative I am aware of. Simple and great in it! No bells and whistles needed.
- Bavithra Raju
- best xpath finder out there