XPath working in scrapy but not in selenium

Question

I have an xpath which works in python-scrapy and also in the firebug extension of firefox. But, it is not working in python-selenium. The code I am using in selenium is this

xpath = ".//div[@id='containeriso3']/div/a[1]/@href"
browser.find_element_by_xpath(xpath)

This gives an InvalidSelectorException error. Does selenium use some other xpath version?

Answer 1

That isn't going to get you an element. You need to take the @href attribute off.

Use .//div[@id='containeriso3']/div/a[1]

Then use get_attribute to get the href from it.