Finding text in element with selenium python

Question

I am wanting to state whether this text 'Awaiting Review' is true or not. How do I find this element? With all the parent elements im struggling to get it. If someone could elaborate on how it works that would be amazing.

Answer 1

Since you're in DevTools, you can right click and select 'Copy XPath'. This will give you a specific and unique selector for the element so you don't need to worry about counting parent divs all the way from the root! Learning XPaths is a great tool, see here: https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_syntax.asp

Then in your Selenium code you can write:

awaiting_review = driver.find_element_by_xpath('# paste xpath here').text

if awaiting_review == 'Awaiting Review':
   # whatever you want to happen

Answer 2

Explanation :- with //span[contains(text(), 'Awaiting Review')] you can located the element and can check if the size if > 0 using find_elements , if it is, then you can assert, (I am just using print) and if it's not, code will go to else part.

You can try with below code :

try:
   if len(driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//span[contains(text(), 'Awaiting Review')]")) > 0 :
       print("Awaiting Review is present")
   else:
        print("Awaiting Review is not present")
except:
    print("something went wrong. ")
    pass

Update 1 :

try:
   if len(driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div#air-pipeline-board heade.air-pipeline-lane span")) > 0 :
       print("Awaiting Review is present")
   else:
        print("Awaiting Review is not present")
except:
    print("something went wrong. ")
    pass

Answer 3

To simply validate if element containing that text exists on the page you can do this:

if driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//span[contains(text(), 'Awaiting Review')]"):
    print("Element is presented")
else:
    print("Eelement not found")

driver.find_elements returns a list of elements matching the passed locator.
So if there is a span element containing Awaiting Review text is presented on the page it will return it. Otherwise it will return an empty list.
Non-empty list is seen as True by Python while empty list is False .

Answer 4

Please try this.

elems = driver.find_elements_by_css_selector("#vacancy-pipeline-header>header>div>span")
if elems:
   if elems[0].text == "Awaiting Review":
     print('valid!')
   else 
     print('invalid!')
else
  print('Element is not exist!')

If you are familiar with CSS selector, it's good for you.