Python Selenium-webdriver: for loop returning first element of the list throughout the loop

Question

I am trying to retrieve users reviews related information from google play store. I am interested in gathering reviewer name, reviewer text, reviewer rating and review date. I am using selenium webdriver for retrieving infromation. Here is my code:

baseurl='https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zihua.android.mytracks&hl=en&showAllReviews=true'
driver.get(baseurl)

person_info = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@class='d15Mdf bAhLNe']")

for person in person_info:
    name = person.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@class='X43Kjb']").text
    review = person.find_element_by_xpath("//div[@class='UD7Dzf']/span").text
    print(name)
    print(review)

The problem with my code is it returns the first name of the reviewers and its review throughout the loop. Could anyone guide me where am I making the mistake?

keepAlive · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-13 23:18:44Z

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It looks like you keep getting the same information again and again because each xpath-search starts from the beginning of the DOM. Something you can do is start your children-related xpaths with a '.' (dot) so as to only deal with children elements, as follows

for person in person_info:
    name = person.find_element_by_xpath(".//span[@class='X43Kjb']").text
    review = person.find_element_by_xpath(".//div[@class='UD7Dzf']/span").text
    print(name)
    print(review)

edited Jun 13, 2020 at 23:18

answered Jun 13, 2020 at 23:14

keepAlive

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2 Comments

keepAlive Over a year ago

Any question @u ? does it work ? I cannot test currently.

user2293224 Over a year ago

Wow. great. Didn't know about the dot operator. Thanks

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