Find Element By Text Using Selenium WebDriver

Question

I have the following HTML page and I am using Selenium under python to extract some data from the page HTML

<div class="secondary-content-col col-xs-12">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12">
<h2 class="h4"><span>Uthyres av:</span> Test</h2>
</div>
</div>
</div>

I want to get the Test text from tag, I have tried

driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//*[contains(., 'Uthyres')]")

but it says element no found! any idea how can I solve it

akuiper · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-26 21:08:03Z

1

You could try this xpath:

//*[contains(text(), 'Uthyres')]/parent::*/text()

instead of contains(., ...) use contains(text(), ...) and then go to the parent node and extract the text. Note Test here is the text node of tag h2 instead of span.

Demonstration using lxml:

from lxml import etree

e = etree.fromstring("""<div class="secondary-content-col col-xs-12">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12">
<h2 class="h4"><span>Uthyres av:</span> Test</h2>
</div>
</div>
</div>""")

e.xpath('//*[contains(text(), "Uthyres")]/parent::*/text()')
# [' Test']

answered May 26, 2017 at 21:08

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3 Comments

Mohammed Over a year ago

I tried "driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[contains(text(), "Uthyres av")]/parent::*/text()')" it didn't work

akuiper Over a year ago

It's possible that you are trying to find elements before it loads up. Try adding a wait before find_elements_..., see this answer.

Mohammed Over a year ago

I got this error The result of the xpath expression "//*[contains(text(), "Uthyres av")]/parent::*/text()" is: [object Text]. It should be an element.

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