How to locate the element using XPath Selenium and Python

Question

I need to get the number "3" from this HTML with python selenium

<div class="number">3</div>

This is the XPATH:

//*[@id="roulette-recent"]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div/div

I tried something like

number = navegador.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="rouletterecent"]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div/div').get_attribute('class')

Answer 1

I think you're looking for:

number = navegador.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="rouletterecent"]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div/div').text

Answer 2

To print the text 3 you can use either of the following Locator Strategies :

• Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML") :

   print(navegador.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#roulette-recent div.number").get_attribute("innerHTML"))

• Using xpath and text attribute:

   print(navegador.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[@id="roulette-recent"]//div[@class='number' and text()]").text)

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Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies :

• Using CSS_SELECTOR and text attribute:

   print(WebDriverWait(navegador, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "#roulette-recent div.number"))).text)

• Using XPATH and get_attribute("innerHTML") :

   print(WebDriverWait(navegador, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id="roulette-recent"]//div[@class='number' and text()]"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))

• 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

You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python

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References

Link to useful documentation:

• get_attribute() method Gets the given attribute or property of the element.
• text attribute returns The text of the element.
• Difference between text and innerHTML using Selenium

Answer 3

If this xpath

//*[@id="rouletterecent"]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div/div

represent the node:

<div class="number">3</div>

and you want to extract the text from it, you should use either:

number = navegador.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="rouletterecent"]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div/div').get_attribute('innerText')
print(number)

or

number = navegador.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="rouletterecent"]/div/div[1]/div[1]/div/div').text
print(number)