XPath Tester

XPath is one of the most powerful ways to pull data out of XML and HTML, and it is everywhere: web scraping, browser automation with Selenium and Playwright, XSLT transforms, and countless testing pipelines. But writing a correct XPath by hand — especially with predicates and axes — is fiddly. This tester turns it into a live playground: paste your document, type an expression, and watch the matched nodes update instantly as you type. Because it runs on your browser's native XPath engine, you get complete, standards-compliant XPath 1.0 behaviour with zero setup, and nothing you paste is ever uploaded. Instead of a silent empty result, a wrong expression produces a clear inline message so you can fix it fast.

A standout feature is dual XML/HTML support. XML mode parses strictly, which is ideal for validating that a feed or API response is well-formed. HTML mode parses leniently the same way a browser does, which makes this tool genuinely useful for building and debugging the XPath selectors used in web scraping and end-to-end tests. The tester is also result-type aware. XPath does not only return nodes — count() returns a number, string() returns text, and functions like contains() return booleans. Rather than getting confused, the tool detects exactly what your expression produced and displays it correctly, showing serialized markup for node-sets or the raw value for scalars. You can copy or download any result for use elsewhere.