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I am using a data scraper and I know just enough code to not know what I'm doing. The scraper is free and has a crawl limit. There is no option to resume the crawl from end point. I need to scrape all li's on the page. The program will only let me select 1 or all li's. I am trying to come up with a manual selector or xpath that would allow me to select from nth-child(200)on. Any help or suggestions?

fitzgeraldda
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You can use the :nth-child() selector, as you mentioned, and change the functional notation according to your desired rule. You can read more about it and how it works here.

If you set it to :nth-child(n+5), the selector will select the fifth element in addition to all the elements that come after it:

li:nth-child(n+5) {
    border: 2px solid red;
}
<p>Numbers:</p>
<ul>
    <li>1</li>
    <li>2</li>
    <li>3</li>
    <li>4</li>
    <li>5</li>
    <li>6</li>
    <li>7</li>
    <li>8</li>
    <li>9</li>
    <li>10</li>
</ul>
ChenBr
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I figured it out. For this example x and y are the known numbers:

element:nth-child(n+x)                     = From x forward 
element:nth-child(-n+x)                    = Up to x 
element:nth-child(n+x):nth-child(-n+x)     = Range between x and y

So for this specific example the solution would be:

element:nth-child(n+200)
fitzgeraldda
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