Get XPath of element in Selenium

Question

Suppose I get a list of elements on a webpage by class name, like so:

driver.find_elements_by_class_name("something")

How can I get the XPath of each element in that list?

Answer 1

WebElement identified through classname as something can also be identified using the following Locator Strategies :

• xpath :

   driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//*[@class='something']")

• css-selector :

   driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".something")

Answer 2

You can install XPath Finder extension for your browser and automatically generate the unique XPath for each element.

After that you can use the Function:

driver.find_element_by_xpath("XPath string") .

Answer 3

driver.find_element_by_* and driver.find_elements_by_* are deprecated. Best way to use it is as @undetected-selenium wrote.

First import By class

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

You can then use it with multiple location strategies.

• XPath

   driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//*[@attribute='something']")

• CSS Selector

  driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "[attribute~=”value”]")

You should use this ones from now on since it's very common to get an error with the latest webdrivers saying find_element_by_* commands are deprecated