How to retrieve a sub-string from a string that changes dynamically with respect to multiple delimiters through Selenium in Python

Question

I wonder if its possible to remove part of the scraped string like:

Wujek Drew / Uncle Drew

into

Uncle Drew

Of course, as it is web scraping, the titles will be different every time, so what can I do here to get the result above?

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Update

I forgot to add something that need to be removed also. Wujek Drew / Uncle Drew (2018) I Will need to delete the data at the end of the string.

Answer 1

To remove first part of the scraped string separated by / character you can use the following solution:

value = driver.find_element_by_xpath("element_xpath").get_attribute("innerHTML").split("/")[1] 

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As per your comment update if you want to extract the sub-string Uncle Drew from the string Wujek Drew / Uncle Drew (2018) you can use the following solution:

import re

value = driver.find_element_by_xpath("element_xpath").get_attribute("innerHTML")
#value='Wujek Drew / Uncle Drew (2018)'
print(re.split('[/()]',value)[1])