Selenium - ".text" Unresolved attribute reference 'text' for class 'list'

Question

https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/elements/information/#text-content

According to Selenium, it said:

# Navigate to url
driver.get("https://www.example.com")

# Retrieves the text of the element
text = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h1").text

But when I follow this rule, it shows Unresolved attribute reference 'text' for class 'list'.

vegetables_search = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "info-wrapper").text

I don't know what's going on. When I don't put ".text". Everything gets fine and shows:

Product_Name:[<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="a0aedd6c6d1e0371c2781854606db200", element="6c140c85-242b-45fe-bf45-5217d7d979c1")>]
Original_Price:[<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="a0aedd6c6d1e0371c2781854606db200", element="2c646052-c91e-41a2-b7f8-125240dd449b")>]
Product_Price:[<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="a0aedd6c6d1e0371c2781854606db200", element="2edec63b-56e2-49e7-963f-e96d41beabcd")>]

This is my code:

#data setting
vegetables_search = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "info-wrapper")

for search in vegetables_search:
 Product_name = search.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "h4")
 Original_price = search.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "promotional")
 Product_price = search.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "price")

 print(f'Product_Name:{Product_name}\nOriginal_Price:{Original_price}\nProduct_Price:{Product_price}')
 print(" ")

Please help me to solve this problem. I want to change "selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement" into text. Thankyou.

driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "info-wrapper") returns a list, which doesn't have the text attribute. — ewokx
– ewokx, Commented Aug 3, 2022 at 9:49

Prophet · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-03 10:12:20Z

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find_elements method returns a list of WebElement objects while find_element method returns a single WebElement object.
text method can be applied on a single WebElement object to extract it text content.
text method can not be applied on a list of objects.
You should use find_element there, as following:

#data setting
vegetables_search = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "info-wrapper")

for search in vegetables_search:
 Product_name = search.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "h4").text
 Original_price = search.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "promotional").text
 Product_price = search.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, "price").text

 print(f'Product_Name:{Product_name}\nOriginal_Price:{Original_price}\nProduct_Price:{Product_price}')
 print(" ")

Or in case these are expected to be a list of elements - iterate over the lists and apply text method on each element in the list.

answered Aug 3, 2022 at 10:12

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hectorcchan Over a year ago

It works, thanks. But I wonder how can I print readable texts if I want to search in "elements".

hectorcchan Over a year ago

"stackoverflow.com/questions/67170094/selenium-iterate-same-url" Just like this scenario. This OP ran the same result(links) because of using "find_element".

Prophet Over a year ago

@hectorcchan this your question about printing a readable texts is not clear enough. Also, now it's another, new question. I think we answered the question you asked here. So, please accept the answer here and then ask a new, separate question about printing texts problem.

Adeyemi Michael · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-03 10:36:40Z

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Try using:

vegetables_search = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "info-wrapper")
print(vegetables_search.text)

Or if it doesn't bring everything then,

use vegetables_search.get_attribute("textContent")

answered Aug 3, 2022 at 10:36

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-03 12:00:23Z

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This error message...

Unresolved attribute reference 'text' for class 'list'

...implies that there is no attribute as text for list type objects.

driver.find_elements* returns a list, where as text is a WebElement attribute. Hence you see the error.

Solution

To print the texts from the (By.CLASS_NAME, "info-wrapper") classes, you can use list comprehension and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

Using CLASS_NAME:

print([my_elem.text for my_elem in driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "info-wrapper")])

edited Aug 3, 2022 at 12:00

answered Aug 3, 2022 at 9:46

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ewokx Over a year ago

Isn't the original problem because the OP was accessing the text attribute on a list result?

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