# Need Help with Plugin and Xpath **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev/API Corner\ **Tags:** plugin-dev\ **Created:** [August 26, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-with-plugin-and-xpath/10715 "2011-08-26T23:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FTZ07](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@FTZ07](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FTZ07)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-with-plugin-and-xpath/10715/1 "2011-08-26T23:22:11Z")
Hello @all! I’m a long time fan of Plex, now started playing with Plugins. But i need some help with Xpath (its completely new for me) I’m trying to fetch 10 videoclips from this website [www.werder.tv/de](http://www.werder.tv/de) (Goal) At the moment i’m able to get one picture… ```auto element = HTML.ElementFromURL('http://www.werder.tv/de').xpath('//html/body/div[@id="pagewrapper"]/div[@id="content"]')
for item in element:
img = item.xpath(".//img")[0].get("src")) ``` But i want to get the Thumbs some level deeper... i spend many hours with no luck! I need the content of every item. Could somebody give me a hint to solve this problem? Thanks in advance FTZ ```auto























































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**Author:** ![jwray](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/jwray/32/99832_2.png) [@jwray](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jwray)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-with-plugin-and-xpath/10715/2 "2011-08-27T17:22:48Z")
Within your existing loop this should give you a list of those items that you can then loop over (i.e. two nested loops) if that’s what you are after ```auto
innerItems = item.xpath(".//div[@id='VideoResults']/div")
``` hope that helps Jonny ---
**Author:** ![sander1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@sander1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sander1)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-with-plugin-and-xpath/10715/3 "2011-08-28T01:13:53Z")
Hello FTZ! The data you want to retrieve from that website is loaded after the webpage is loaded. The xpath works in a browser, but it will certainly not work in your plugin code. The data is retrieved by doing an XMLHttpRequest. The url it hits is ```auto http://www.werder.tv/service.php?cc=de&service=video&method=getByTags&args[tags]=&args[limit]=10&args[offset]=10&args[sort]=SDD&args[quality]=&args[nr]=&args[type]=free,pay ``` and this returns all the information formatted as JSON. Hope this helps! ---
**Author:** ![FTZ07](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@FTZ07](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FTZ07)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2011, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-with-plugin-and-xpath/10715/4 "2011-08-28T22:27:51Z")
Hello Jonny, Hello Sander1! Thanks a lot for your help!!! I just learned a lot from both hints 🙂 Sending an xmlHttpRequest works perfect! Thx Sander!!! I got now all the menus working… where did you found the “link” for the request? But i just realized that i have to care about authentication … and making a site configuration seems absolutely impossible at the moment to me :o I have to learn a lot more to get this plugin finished … Anyway again thanks a lot! FTZ ---
**Author:** ![sander1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@sander1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sander1)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-with-plugin-and-xpath/10715/5 "2011-08-30T16:16:51Z")
Hello FTZ! > [@](#): > > where did you found the "link" for the request? To get information about all the http request done by the website, I use this [HttpFox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/httpfox/) addon for Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-help-with-plugin-and-xpath/10715/6 "2019-12-20T21:22:07Z")
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