diff --git a/scripts/xpath_cleanup/find_xpath_patterns.py b/scripts/xpath_cleanup/find_xpath_patterns.py
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+# flake8: noqa
+"""this script is used to find all the xpath patterns in the database, so that they can be mapped to new patterns in xpath_mappings.py"""
+
+from sde_collections.models.pattern import TitlePattern
+
+print(
+    "there are", TitlePattern.objects.filter(title_pattern__contains="xpath").count(), "xpath patterns in the database"
+)
+
+# Get all the xpath patterns and their candidate urls
+xpath_patterns = TitlePattern.objects.filter(title_pattern__contains="xpath")
+for xpath_pattern in xpath_patterns:
+    print(xpath_pattern.title_pattern)
+    # for url in xpath_pattern.candidate_urls.all():
+    #     print(url.url)
+    print()
+
+# not every xpath pattern has a candidate url, but I went ahead and fixed all of them anyway
diff --git a/scripts/xpath_mappings.py b/scripts/xpath_cleanup/xpath_mappings.py
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rename from scripts/xpath_mappings.py
rename to scripts/xpath_cleanup/xpath_mappings.py