How to retrieve the url from background image using Selenium and Javascript

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I'm trying to retrieve the url from an background image with Xpath or Javascript, but with no luck for now. this is what I have

<div style="width: 100%; display: inline-block;">
 <div tws-article-images-preload="item" class="tws-article-images--preload ng-scope tws-article-images-- 
   image-small" ng-click="closeImage()" use-original="useOriginal" style="background-image: 
   url(&quot;https://i.pinimg.com/originals/59/54/b4/5954b408c66525ad932faa693a647e3f.jpg;);">
 </div>
</div>

And have tried this two with different modification

//*[starts-with(@style, 'background-image: url()] <--Did not work 

return document.getElementsByClassName('tws-article-images--preload ng-scope tws-article-images--image-small').src

Does this answer your question? How to get background image URL of an element using JavaScript? — DolUnity
– DolUnity, Commented Jun 18, 2020 at 22:05
Why is this tagged with f#? (I'll remove it, it doesn't seem to apply) — Abel
– Abel, Commented Jun 18, 2020 at 23:13

Felipe Zavan · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-18 23:58:33Z

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document.getElementsByClassName('classname')[0].style.backgroundImage.slice(4, -1).replace(/"/g, "");

edited Jun 18, 2020 at 23:58

answered Jun 18, 2020 at 22:06

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Dymond Over a year ago

Yeah. I tried this earlier, but it gives me Cannot read property 'backgroundImage' of undefined

Felipe Zavan Over a year ago

@Dymond I edited my answer. Need to get the first item ([0]).

jahnavi13 · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-18 22:12:44Z

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You can try

return document.getElementsByClassName('tws-article-images--preload ng-scope tws-article-images--image-small').style.backgroundImage.slice(4, -1).replace(/["']/g, "");

answered Jun 18, 2020 at 22:12

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E.Wiest · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-19 00:39:59Z

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Your XPath expression is wrong (missing ' and a possible annoying CRLF). Fix it with :

//*[starts-with(@style, 'background-image:')]/@style

Then use regex to clean the result :

txt = 'background-image: url("https://i.pinimg.com/originals/59/54/b4/5954b408c66525ad932faa693a647e3f.jpg;);'
result = re.sub(r"^.+\"(.+?);.+", r"\1", txt)
print(result)

With XPath :

substring-after(substring-before(//*[starts-with(@style, 'background-image:')]/@style,';)'),'"')

Output : https://i.pinimg.com/originals/59/54/b4/5954b408c66525ad932faa693a647e3f.jpg

answered Jun 19, 2020 at 0:39

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-19 08:59:13Z

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To retrieve the url from the background image you can usethe following solution:

Using slice():

var img = document.getElementsByClassName('tws-article-images--preload')[0],
style = img.currentStyle || window.getComputedStyle(img, false),
bgImage = style.backgroundImage.slice(4, -1).replace(/"/g, "");
//printing the url
console.log('Image URL: ' + bgImage);

Using regex:

var img = document.getElementsByClassName('tws-article-images--preload')[0],
style = img.currentStyle || window.getComputedStyle(img, false),
var url = backgroundImage.match(/url\(["']?([^"']*)["']?\)/)[1];
//printing the url
console.log('Image URL: ' + url);

answered Jun 19, 2020 at 8:59

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