css2xpath

Convert CSS selectors to XPath

css2xpath is a handy tool for converting CSS selectors to XPath queries. It's simple to use as both a shell command or a Python module.

Examples

Pass a single CSS selector as command argument

$ css2xpath.py '#4web .home > h1'
//*[@id='4web']//*[contains(@class, 'home')]/h1

$ css2xpath.py '#4web .home' '#4web .work'
//*[@id='4web']//*[contains(@class, 'home')]
//*[@id='4web']//*[contains(@class, 'work')]

Use interactively

$ css2xpath.py
div#4web > div.home
//div[@id='4web']/div[contains(@class, 'home')]

div#4web > div.work
//div[@id='4web']/div[contains(@class, 'work')]

Convert a file with CSS selectors on each line

$ cat input
#4web  div.home > h1
#4web  div.work > p.lead
#4web .copyleft > p.notice
$ css2xpath.py < input > output
$ cat output
//*[@id='4web']//div[contains(@class, 'home')]/h1
//*[@id='4web']//div[contains(@class, 'work')]/p[contains(@class, 'lead')]
//*[@id='4web']//*[contains(@class, 'copyleft')]/p[contains(@class, 'notice')]

More

Please see the source code for more details, it's very simple and compact.

Warning!

Currently the script doesn't handle some complex selectors. While most of these are completely unnecessary (like for adjacent sibling), I believe there are still some we might want it to work with. If you stumble upon such a case, please report it to me or, even better, send a push request.

Bugs, feature requests, etc.

yordan [at] 4web [dot] bg