How to extract the information of Total Confirmed from webpage with selenium webdriver in python

Question

After clicking the selected country I want to get the number of "Total Confirmed" from the top of the website

Website: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Below is the code i have written:

poland = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//h5//span[contains(text(),'Poland')]")
poland.click()

Answer 1

To extract the number "1,862" clicking on Poland is not mandatory, instead you need to induce WebDriverWait for either visibility_of_element_located() or element_to_be_clickable() and you can use the following xpath based Locator Strategy :

• Using XPATH and ``:

   driver.get('https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6') print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//h5//span[contains(text(),'Poland')]//preceding::span[2]/strong"))).text)

  • Console Output:

     1,862

• Using XPATH and ``:

   driver.get('https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6') print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//h5//span[contains(text(),'Poland')]//preceding::span[2]/strong"))).text)

  • Console Output:

     1,862

• 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