python selenium get text from element

Question

how would I get the text "Premier League (ENG 1)" extracted from this HTML tree? (marked part)

I treid ti get the text with xpath, css selector, class... but I seem to cant get this text extracted.

Basically I want to create a list and go over all "class=with icon" elements that include a text (League) and append the text to that list.

This was my last attempt:

def scrape_test():
    alleligen = []

    #click the dropdown menue to open the folder with all the leagues
    league_dropdown_menue = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/main/section/section/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[7]/div')
    liga_dropdown_menue.click()
    time.sleep(1)
    
    #get text form all elements that conain a league as text
    leagues = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('body > main > section > section > div.ut-navigation-container-view--content > div > div.ut-pinned-list-container.ut-content-container > div > div.ut-pinned-list > div.ut-item-search-view > div.inline-list-select.ut-search-filter-control.has-default.has-image.is-open.active > div > ul > li:nth-child(3)')
    
    #append to list
    alleligen.append(leagues)
    
    print(alleligen)

But I dont get any output.

What am I missing here?

(I am new to coding)

Answer 1

try this

path = "//ul[@class='inline-list']//li[first()+1]"
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, path))).text

print(element)

the path specifies the element you want to target. the first // in the path means that the element you want to find is not the first element in the page and exists somewhere in the page. li[first()+1] states that you are interested in the li tag after the first li .

The WebDriverWait waits for the webpage to load completely for a specified number of seconds (in this case, 5). You might want to put the WebdriverWait inside a try block.

The .text in the end parses the text from the tag. In this case it is the text you want Premier League (ENG 1)

Answer 2

Can you try :

leagues = driver.find_elements_by_xpath(“//li[@class=‘with-icon’ and contains(text(), ‘League’)]”)
For league in leagues:
     alleligen.append(league.text)
print(alleligen)

Answer 3

If you know that your locator will remain on the same position in that list tree, you can use the following where the li element is taken based on its index:

locator= "//ul[@class='inline-list']//li[2]"
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, locator))).text