Python: Using xpath locally / on a specific element

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Your xpath starts with a slash (/) and is therefore absolute. Add a dot (.) in front to make it relative to the current element i.e.

links = table.xpath(".//a[contains(@href, 'http://www.example.com/filter/')]")

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