xpath returns an empty list

[haye]

hi, here are my two codes:

First :

page = requests.get('http://www.google.fr/')
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
test1 = tree.xpath('/html/head/title/text()')             
test2 = tree.xpath('//*[@id="fbar"]/div/div/text()')       # xpath from 'France' which is at  bottom-left corner of the screen
print test1
print test2

Output :

Output:
['Google']
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Second :

parser = etree.HTMLParser()
html = etree.parse('http://www.google.fr/',parser)
result = html.xpath('/html/head/title/text()')
result2 = html.xpath('//*[@id="fbar"]/div/div/text()')  # xpath from 'France' which is at  bottom-left corner of the screen
print result
print result2

Output :

Output:
['Google']
[]

Using google chrome, i right click on 'France' and take its xpath.
Why does it return an empty list since it doesn't for title's xpath ?
Any solution ? Thanks !
As you can see, i tried two differents ways to do it, but both does the same

[heiner55]

Which libraries do I have to import to get your program run ?

[haye]

sorry, i imported those ones:

from lxml import html
from lxml import etree
import urllib2
from urllib2 import urlopen
import requests
import lxml.html

[heiner55]

Sorry, I can not get "google.fr", because I always get redirected to "google.de"

[snippsat]

It's probably using JavaScripts,then need something like Selenium/PhantomJs, or reverse engineer what happens.
That say so is google start page not easy to scrape as it also has language detection and other advance stuff,
so if this is a scrape test find a other page to use.

[heiner55]

Ok, I will try.