Find Span Within Span Using Python and Selenium

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I am trying to scrape the text ("9/10") in the span contained in <span class"_1JRNOw">. I had thought the code below would do it but I get a Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//span[@class='_1JRNOw']"} error.

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@class='_1JRNOw']").text

Can anyone see what I've done wrong?

enthusiasticCoder · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-01 10:13:06Z

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Try this one see if it works for you:

ele = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@class='_1JRNOw']/span")
print("Text is: " + ele.text)

answered Oct 1, 2021 at 10:13

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James Over a year ago

Thanks enthusiasticCoder. It gives the same error unfortunately.

enthusiasticCoder Over a year ago

would it be possible to share the URL of the page? I might be able to help you more.

James Over a year ago

Thanks guys. I've spent most of the weekend trying to figure out why these were not working. It turns out that after logging in through an iframe the content was contained in an ordinary frame so switching back before running the statements did the job. Thanks again

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-01 11:16:16Z

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If Glad text is going to remain same, not changing dynamically (Assumption).

You could create an xpath based on Glad that could fetch you 9/10.

xpath //span[text()='Glad']//following-sibling::span/span

and try it like this :

driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[text()='Glad']//following-sibling::span/span").text

you could put some wait, or Explicit waits to have more stable automation script.

Update :

Use this xpath

(//div[@data-kib-type='oauth']//descendant::span)[1]

But you'd have to change the [1] to something else, may be [3] or [4]. Please do that in chrome dev tools.

PS : Please check in the dev tools (Google chrome) if we have unique entry in HTML DOM or not.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL + F -> then paste the xpath and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

edited Oct 1, 2021 at 11:16

answered Oct 1, 2021 at 9:55

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James Over a year ago

Thank you @cruisepandey. Glad is dynamic unfortunately but the @ will not change.

cruisepandey Over a year ago

hmm.. @ is actually of no use for us in xpath 1.0, I need to see more outer HTML to give you more reliable locator.

James Over a year ago

I've added more html. Thanks

cruisepandey Over a year ago

Please see above.

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