如何使用 Selenium WebDriver 将复制的文本存储到 Python 中的变量中

Question

I am working on some web scraping projects, where I scrape the data and store it into the CSV file. I am stuck in a case where I need to store copied the data into a variable.

Actually, the text is generated after clicking on a button and automatically copied, just I need to save this copied text into a variable. Now for this, I use following commands but nothing is working.

Command1-

   spam=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[@data-control-name="copy_address]').click()
   print("copied text",spam)

it shows "copied text none"

Even I used pyperclip library as well but nothing works for me.

Command2-

   pyperclip.copy(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[@data-control-name="copy_address"]').click())
   spam = pyperclip.paste()

How can I proceed?

Answer 1

You are clicking the element in that xpath not copying its text, that is why your variable returns None .

Try:

spam=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[@data-control-name="copy_address]').text
print(spam)

If it won't work, maybe the element you are getting is not a text. Try getting its html code instead using the get_attribute method:

spam=driver.find_element_by_xpath('//div[@data-control-name="copy_address]')
your_text = spam.get_attribute('outerHTML')
print(your_text)

This will give you full html of the element you're interested in, then you just have to substring the result to get the text you need.

Hope this helps.