I'm trying to get text using Selenium WebDriver and here is my code. Please note that I don't want to use XPath, because in my case the ID gets changed on every relaunch of the web page.
My code:
text = driver.find_element_by_class_name("current-stage").getText("my text")
HTML:
<span class="current-text" id="yui_3_7_0_4_1389185744113_384">my text</span>
How can I fix this?
You want just .text.
You can then verify it after you've got it, don't attempt to pass in what you expect it should have.
.text.driver.find_element_by_class_name("current-stage").text ....just text on it's own. Nothing else.
.text on each item of the for loop.
Python
element.text
Java
element.getText()
C#
element.Text
Ruby
element.text
. after the element in VSCode, you'll be given a list of suggestions based on what the class accepts. That's how I found this.
To print the text my text you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using class_name and get_attribute("textContent"):
print(driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "current-stage").get_attribute("textContent"))
Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):
print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span.current-stage").get_attribute("innerHTML"))
Using xpath and text attribute:
print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[@class='current-stage']").text)
Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using CLASS_NAME and get_attribute("textContent"):
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "current-stage"))).get_attribute("textContent"))
Using CSS_SELECTOR and text attribute:
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span.current-stage"))).text)
Using XPATH and get_attribute("innerHTML"):
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[@class='current-stage']"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))
Note : You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python
Link to useful documentation:
get_attribute() method Gets the given attribute or property of the element.text attribute returns The text of the element.
The answer is:
driver.find_element_by_class_name("ctsymbol").text
You can use:
element = driver.find_element_by_class_name("class_name").text
This will return the text within the element and will allow you to verify it after that.
This is the correct answer. It worked!!
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
driver = webdriver.Chrome("E:\\Python\\selenium\\webdriver\\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://www.tatacliq.com/global-desi-navy-embroidered-kurta/p-mp000000000876745")
driver.set_page_load_timeout(45)
driver.maximize_window()
driver.implicitly_wait(2)
driver.get_screenshot_as_file("E:\\Python\\Tatacliq.png")
print ("Executed Successfully")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='pdp-promo-title pdp-title']").click()
SpecialPrice = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='pdp-promo-title pdp-title']").text
print(SpecialPrice)
A heads up for anyone finding this thread after the Selenium 4 update. The driver.find_element_by_* has been deprecated and using it will give a "deprecationwarning". The replacement method is: driver.find_element(By.X,"name") Please look up Selenium 4 info.
find_element_by_* and find_elements_by_* are removed in Selenium 4.3.0. Use find_element instead.". Though it doesn't really answer the question what can be done if the number of elements is different from exactly one (e.g., thrown exceptions if an element is absent. The only solution may be to catch the exception (no way to prevent it)).to get a text from the element:
url=driv.find_element(By.whatDoYouWant, "ClassNameOrwhatDoYouWant").text
print(url)
ex:
url = web.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "a").text
print(url)
to get a text from the elements:
ex:
for i in range(6):
var = web.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "input")[i].text
print(var)
I've found this absolutely invaluable when unable to grab something in a custom class or changing id's:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Show Next Date Available')]").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Show Next Date Available')]").text
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Available')]").text
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Avail')]").text
.click() necessary? Why are there three lines with .text?