Extracting links in a sequence from a table in a webpage using Selenium in Python

Question

I want to extract links of pdfs from this page using Selenium in python

I managed to extract the entire table that contains the rows and the links to the pdfs.

driver.get(company_link)
announcement_link = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="heading1"]/h1/a').get_attribute('href')
driver.get(announcement_link)
table = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="lblann"]/table/tbody/tr[4]/td')

I am looking for a shortest possible method to create a list of all pdf links in a sequence. How do I do that?

Answer 1

I want to extract links of pdfs from this page using Selenium in python

In the page you provided, each link has a unique class tablebluelink which makes it easy to select all of their hrefs with a XPath expression selects the href attribute of all a elements that have a class attribute with the value tablebluelink :

//a[@class='tablebluelink']/@href

and then use find_elements_by_xpath in order to iterate over them:

elems = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[@class='tablebluelink']/@href")