Using text attribute to retrieve text with Selenium in Python

Question

I'm trying to execute this:

driver.get(websitelink)
sleep(3)

element = driver.find_element_by_id("canvasCaption").text
print('text is:',element)

In order to get text from here :

<div class="a-column a-span12 a-text-center"> 
  <span id="canvasCaption" class="a-color-secondary">Haz clic para obtener una vista ampliada</span> 
</div>

The output is only :

text is:

But it should be:

text is:  Haz clic para obtener una vista ampliada

Also gived a try with:

element = driver.find_element_by_class_name("a-color-secondary").text

But same output.

Can anyone help please ?

Does this answer your question? Use Python Selenium to get span text — FLAK-ZOSO
– FLAK-ZOSO, Commented Jan 20, 2022 at 19:59

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-20 20:32:19Z

To print the text Haz clic para obtener una vista ampliada you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span#canvasCaption").get_attribute("innerHTML"))

Using xpath and text attribute:

print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//span[@id='canvasCaption']").text)

Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

Using CSS_SELECTOR and text attribute:

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "span#canvasCaption"))).text)

Using XPATH and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//span[@id='canvasCaption']"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))

Note : You have to add the following imports :

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

You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python

References

Link to useful documentation:

get_attribute() method Gets the given attribute or property of the element.
text attribute returns The text of the element.
Difference between text and innerHTML using Selenium

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