XPath Query get attribute href from a tag

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I want to use XPath to get the href attribute from an a-tag  but it has two occurrences within the same file  How am I getting along  I need to check IF there is an href attribute with value  street object  I have got this code and it does not work    product photo        xpath- gt query    a contains  href    object street fotos     1              product 360          xpath- gt query    a contains  href    object street 360-fotos     1              product blueprint    xpath- gt query    a contains  href    object street plattegrond     1              product video        xpath- gt query    a contains  href    object street video     1       It does not return anything at all  Who can help me out

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The answer shared by  mockinterface is correct  Although I would like to add my 2 cents to it    If someone is using frameworks like scrapy the you will have to use  html body  a contains  href  com    2   href along with get   like this   response xpath    a contains  href  com    2   href   get

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For the following HTML document    lt html gt     lt body gt       lt a href  http   www example com  gt Example lt  a gt        lt a href  http   www stackoverflow com  gt SO lt  a gt      lt  body gt   lt  html gt    The xpath query  html body  a  href  or simply   a  href  will return        http   www example com     http   www stackoverflow com   To select a specific instance use  html body  a N   href            html body  a 2   href     http   www stackoverflow com   To test for strings contained in the attribute and return the attribute itself place the check on the tag not on the attribute           html body  a contains  href  example     href     http   www example com   Mixing the two           html body  a contains  href  com    2   href     http   www stackoverflow com

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