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Using selenium and Google Chrome's xpaths to find some text
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gistfile1.py
from selenium import webdriver
from lxml import html
#Get the page source as altered by the browser
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
url='http://www.amazon.com/Levi-Magic-Pants-Douglas-Bradshaw-ebook/dp/B0086K9JI0/'
browser.get(url)
html_source = browser.page_source
#Combine it with an xpath that you get from inspecting an element, right-clicking the highlighted code, and then selecting copy xpath
tree = html.fromstring(html_source)
xpath='//*[@id="divsinglecolumnminwidth"]/div[4]/span/span/a'
res=tree.xpath(xpath)
res[0].text
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