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by jerf 145 days ago
XPath may have "failed" for general use but it's generally well-enough supported that I can find a library in the common languages I've used when I went looking for it. In some ways the hard part is just knowing it exists so you can use it if you need it.
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Couldn't agree more.

I should also add that most (Python-based) web crawling and scraping frameworks support XPath engines OOTB: Scrapy, Crawlee, etc. In that sense, XPath is very much alive.