How can i extract only text in scrapy selector in python

Question

I have this code

   site = hxs.select(\"//h1[@class=\'state\']\")
   log.msg(str(site[0].extract()),level=log.ERROR)

The ouput is

Answer 1

I haven't got a scrapy instance running so I couldn't test this; but you could try to use text() within your search expression.

For example:

site = hxs.select("//h1[@class='state']/text()")

(got it from the tutorial)