Scrapy - Extract items from table

Question

Trying to get my head around Scrapy but hitting a few dead ends.

I have a 2 Tables on a page and would like to extract the data from each one then move along to the

Answer 1

You need to slightly correct your code. Since you already select all elements within the table you don't need to point again to a table. Thus you can shorten your xpath to something like thistd[1]//text().

def parse_products(self, response):
    products = response.xpath('//*[@id="Year1"]/table//tr')
    # ignore the table header row
    for product in products[1:]  
       item = Schooldates1Item()
       item['hol'] = product.xpath('td[1]//text()').extract_first()
       item['first'] = product.xpath('td[2]//text()').extract_first()
       item['last'] = product.xpath('td[3]//text()').extract_first()
       yield item

Edited my answer since @stutray provide the link to a site.