I'm trying to get this element with Python and Selenium.
<h2 class="jobTitle jobTitle-color-purple">
<span title="Director">Director=</span>
<h2>
This is what I tried:
try:
title = job.find_element_by_xpath('.//td[@class="title"]//a').text
except:
title = job.find_element_by_xpath('.//h2[@class="title"]//a').get_attribute(name="title")
What am I doing wrong?
no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":".//h2[@class="title"]//a"}
You are using absolutely wrong locator.
The h2 element class attribute value is jobTitle jobTitle-color-purple, not title.
The child element tag name is span, not a.
Please try this:
title = job.find_element_by_xpath('//h2[@class="jobTitle jobTitle-color-purple"]//span').text
You will possibly need to add a wait / delay to add before that to let the page loaded before you trying to access that element.
To print the text Director you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:
Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):
print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h2.jobTitle > span[title]").get_attribute("innerHTML"))
Using xpath and text attribute:
print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//h2[contains(@class, 'jobTitle')]/span[@title]").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, "h2.jobTitle > span[title]"))).text)
Using XPATH and get_attribute("innerHTML"):
print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//h2[contains(@class, 'jobTitle')]/span[@title]"))).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
Link to useful documentation:
get_attribute() method Gets the given attribute or property of the element.text attribute returns The text of the element.
To get The text From a Page
Des = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@class="class name of required data"]').text
Here only the class name of span tag from where you want to get the text
