HTML Agility Pack can't find xPath

Question

I'm writing a web scraping program in C# using HTML Agility Pack. I previously had this written in Java but I am moving it to C#. Before I was using jSoup to parse my HTML and had no issues getting the elements via xpath from Yahoo Finance, but now, with HTML Agility Pack, I can't get any element from this site using the xpaths, and they seem to be legitimate nodes. Here is an example

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AMZN is the site

I use this code to add it to a spreadsheet

ws.get_Range("A2").Value2 = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//*[@id='table1']/tbody/tr[1]/td").InnerText;

I should add that this is an Excel add-in. When I write the HTML to the spreadsheet I can't seem to find "table1" anywhere in the HTML, but I can find it when I print the HTML to a text file. Any insight on finding these nodes?

jDave1984 jDave1984 · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-18T02:09:21

I found it. HtmlAgilityPack does not like to use the "/tbody" part of an xpath. Take that out if you are searching through table elements.

HTML Agility Pack can't find xPath

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