How to extract the text within the element using Selenium WebDriver and Python?

Question

Grab the text of the specified area.

Website: https://www.kobo.com/tw/zh/ebook/NXUCYsE9cD6OWhvtdTqQQQ.

Image:

Code:

BookTitle = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//p[@class="title product-field"]')
BookTitle[0].getWindowHandle()

HTML:

<span translate="no">大塊文化</span>

Your selector has nothing to do with the element, generally you could right click the element on dev tool to copy selector — gherkin
– gherkin, Commented Apr 9, 2019 at 10:23

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-09 12:00:50Z

To extract the text 大塊文化 from the specified area you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use the following solution:

Code Block:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.kobo.com/tw/zh/ebook/NXUCYsE9cD6OWhvtdTqQQQ')
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//h2[text()='電子書詳細資料']//following::ul[1]//li/a[@class='description-anchor']/span"))).text)
driver.quit()

Console Output:
```
大塊文化
```

NarendraR · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-09 10:39:57Z

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You are doing in wrong way :

BookTitle[0].getWindowHandle() not suppose to do anything here

Simply try :

driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[class='description-anchor']>span").text

answered Apr 9, 2019 at 10:39

NarendraR

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undetected Selenium Over a year ago

a[class='description-anchor'] -> a.description-anchor perhaps more canonical

KunduK · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-09 10:20:49Z

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Try the following code.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver.get("https://www.kobo.com/tw/zh/ebook/NXUCYsE9cD6OWhvtdTqQQQ")
element=WebDriverWait(driver,30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,'a.description-anchor span[translate="no"]')))
print(element.text)

answered Apr 9, 2019 at 10:20

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RegCent · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-10 08:09:45Z

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You could also use

driver.find_element_by_css_selector('span[translate="no"]')

CSS Selectors should be faster than XPath

EDIT Edited per DebanjanB comment - thank you

edited Apr 10, 2019 at 8:09

answered Apr 9, 2019 at 10:22

RegCent

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undetected Selenium Over a year ago

Did you test your answer before publishing it? Does your code compiles?? Is your solution Python based as per OP's requirement???

RegCent Over a year ago

My apologies reagarding the Python solution, I missed the tag Edited to a Python version a yes, it does compile for me

RegCent Over a year ago

I'm using this very syntax in my work.... However, I'm confused, other answers suggest very similar if not the same solution, how could my answer have compilation errors and theirs not

undetected Selenium Over a year ago

You are missing the single quotes i.e. '...' around the selector and it should have been driver.find_element_by_css_selector('span[translate="no"]')

RegCent Over a year ago

Edited and I apologize for this dumb mistake

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