Problem

You want to find or manipulate elements using Xpath selectors.

Solution

Use the Element.selectXpath(String xpath) and Element.selectXpath(String, Class<T>) methods:

  Document doc = Jsoup.connect("https://jsoup.org/").get();
  
  Elements elements = doc.selectXpath("//div[@class='col1']/p");
      // Each P element in div.col1
  
  List<TextNode> textNodes = doc.selectXpath("//a/text()", TextNode.class);
      // Each TextNode in every A element

Description

jsoup supports XPath selectors using the Element.selectXpath(String xpath) method. By default, XPath 1.0 expressions are supported. You can also provide an alternate XPathFactory implementation for other versions.

The Element.selectXpath(String, Class<T>) method enables selecting for specific node types, such as TextNode, DataNode, LeafNode etc.

You can experiment with different XPath selectors on Try jsoup.

This XPath cheatsheet has helpful comparisons between CSS and XPath selectors.