Can't print in Python

Question

I've been studying Python last few weeks to automate a work for my business.

Basically I have to do webscraping but I'm having trouble with a print function in the next-to-last code line...

def search_time(self):
    for item in self.items:
        print(f"Procurando {item}.")

        self.driver.get(self.bot_url)

        cpfBox = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="search"]/div/div[1]/input')
        cpfBox.send_keys(item)

        time.sleep(2)

        cpfButton = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="search"]/div/div[2]/button')
        cpfButton.click()

        time.sleep(2)

        self.delay = 3  # seconds



    try:
        WebDriverWait(self.driver, self.delay).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="main"]/div[1]/h2')))
        print('CPF Valido')
    except TimeoutException:
        print('CPF Invalido')

        time.sleep(2)

        name = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/main[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/h2").text
        print(name)

        time.sleep(2)


items = ["32911769953"]


bot_url = BOT(items)
bot_url.search_time()

Answer 1

Check whether the xpath is indeed the correct path to the text you want to get through selenium.

If this is a website you can go to the element that you are trying to find and right click and select Copy XPATH.

try:
    WebDriverWait(self.driver, self.delay).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="main"]/div[1]/h2')))
    name = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/main[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/h2").text
    print(name)
    time.sleep(2)
    print('CPF Valido')
except TimeoutException:
    print('CPF Invalido')
    time.sleep(2)

Answer 2

First, I would recommend generalizing your xpath query. Currently, it is heavily dependent on the entire page's structure. A small layout change in an unrelated part of the page could give you undesirable results. Review xpath syntax use of // and predicates will save you many headaches in the future.

If that doesn't help, please post the html that you are attempting to parse.