Most efficient way to find list of element text Selenium Python

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I have a page with a list of cards with information. The XPATHS of each cards are:

self.automatic_payments_cards_list = (By.XPATH , '//*[@id="page-inner"]/div/div/main/lseg-gateway-billing-payment-line-info')

I'm trying to get the text of a specific elements for every card in the page.

//*[@id="page-inner"]/div/div/main/lseg-gateway-billing-payment-line-info[1]/lseg-card/div/lseg-card-container/ng-transclude/div/div[4]/div/div[3]

//*[@id="page-inner"]/div/div/main/lseg-gateway-billing-payment-line-info[2]/lseg-card/div/lseg-card-container/ng-transclude/div/div[4]/div/div[3]

//*[@id="page-inner"]/div/div/main/lseg-gateway-billing-payment-line-info[3]/lseg-card/div/lseg-card-container/ng-transclude/div/div[4]/div/div[3]

I know that with this code i get all the text on each card

for i in range(len(self.driver.find_elements(*self.automatic_payments_cards_list))):
            print(self.driver.find_element(*self.automatic_payments_cards_list)[i].text)

But i don't want to get all the text on the cards, only the text on this specifics XPATHS

//*[@id="page-inner"]/div/div/main/lseg-gateway-billing-payment-line-info[**X**]**/lseg-card/div/lseg-card-container/ng-transclude/div/div[4]/div/div[3]**

Can you guys guide me in finding a solution to this?

SadisticSardines · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-11 22:18:46Z

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The best way to actually achieve this is by using find element_by_xpath on the element.

all_card_els = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="page-inner"]/div/div/main/lseg-gateway-billing-payment-line-info')

for card_el in all_card_els:
    specific_el_within_card = card_el.find_element_by_xpath('.//lseg-card/div/lseg-card-container/ng-transclude/div/div[4]/div/div[3]')

The . at the starting of the xpath is essential to make sure that the search is within the selected el, without the . you will always end up getting the first el which matches this xpath on the page. You can now use specific_el_within_card however way you like inside the loop, or append it to an external list.

PS: You can access the text via specific_el_within_card.text() as you mentioned you wanted to extract info for each card.

answered Feb 11, 2021 at 22:18

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Gaj Julije · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-11 19:39:03Z

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It is simple.:-) Transfer your xpath as dynamical string and pass it, like you do in a loop for e.g.

 parent_locator_String=string1+ iterator + string2
"//*[@id="page-inner"]/div/div/main/lseg-gateway-billing-payment-line-info["+i+"]/lseg-card/div/lseg-card-container/ng-transclude/div/div[4]/div/div[3]"

answered Feb 11, 2021 at 19:39

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