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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions crawl4ai/content_scraping_strategy.py
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Expand Up @@ -705,6 +705,22 @@ def _scrap(
except Exception as e:
self._log("error", f"Error with target element detection: {str(e)}", "SCRAPE")
return None
elif css_selector:
try:
# Handle comma-separated selectors
selectors = [s.strip() for s in css_selector.split(',')]
selected_elements = []
for selector in selectors:
selected_elements.extend(body.cssselect(selector))
if selected_elements:
content_element = lhtml.Element("div")
content_element.extend(copy.deepcopy(selected_elements))
else:
self._log("warning", f"No elements found for css_selector: {css_selector}", "SCRAPE")
content_element = body
except Exception as e:
self._log("error", f"Error applying css_selector '{css_selector}': {str(e)}", "SCRAPE")
content_element = body
else:
content_element = body

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