Getting text from a object with Selenium

I’m trying to get the text inside of <pre> tag and I have tried with get_attribute('text'), get_attribute('value'), .text(), .value(), get_attribute("innerHTML") but I keep failing:

Snapshot:

This is the code that i’m using:

import unittest
import time

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Chrome("chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("###")

elem=driver.find_element(By.ID, "login_admin").click()

elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[15]/div[2]/form/div[1]/input").send_keys("###")
elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[15]/div[2]/form/div[2]/input").send_keys("###")
elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[15]/div[3]/div/button[1]").click()

elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/nav/div/div[1]/button/span[3]').click()
time.sleep(2)
elem =  WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/nav/div/div[2]/ul/li/a')))
time.sleep(2)
elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/nav/div/div[2]/ul/li/a').click()
time.sleep(2)
elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/span[1]/input[2]').send_keys('###')

time.sleep(1)

elem=driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/span[2]/button').click()

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='output']/pre[text()]"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))

And this is what it says when print:

Answer

To print the text within the <pre> tag you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.output > pre").get_attribute("innerHTML"))
  

• Using xpath and text attribute:

  print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@class='output']/pre[contains(., 'ContactUri')]").text)
  

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To extract the text 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(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.output > pre"))).text)
  

• Using XPATH and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='output']/pre[contains(., 'ContactUri')]"))).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