Within a div tag there is text I wan to extract but within a leading introduction and a footer which is unfortunatelly inside the div. There are always 3 BR tags at the beginning and 2 BR tags at the end of the text, where the text inbetween might also be devided with BR tags itself. The simple example looks
Tag: xpath
XPath Selector to get IMDB release Date
I am practicing using Xpath selectors, and it seems to be very difficult to extract the release date from this website. I can get to the div class=’txt-block’, but not past that. I am trying to the get the date underneath it. E.g. “18 July 2008 (USA)” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt04685…
How to find element by part of its id name in selenium with python
I’m using selenium with python,now I want to locate an element by part of its id name,what can I do? For example,now I’ve already located a item by id name coption5 : Is there anyway I can locate this element only by using coption? Answer To find the element which you have located with: To locate …
Two identical AutomationID using xpath python with appium
In in our mobile app, there are two boxes with the same AutomationId. For automated testing i need to find the first of the two elements by xpath. I tried following code, bt it didn’t work: Thanks! Answer You can handle the following way Description : First, get the all identical elements through “…
How to send text to the Email field within https://accounts.google.com registration page?
I made proton mail maker script that can go to google sign in and put verification code to proton mail code section.. when I run that, it’s working correctly but it’s not typing google account for signing but he is not typing in the email section I had an error in google account email section here…
How to click the call drop down using selenium webdriver python?
I am not able to click the call dropdown using xpath or css selector and scrape the phone numbers.Is there any way to do so? Answer To click on the element with text as Call associated with the dropdown you have to induce WebDriverWait for the element to be clickable and you can use either of the following so…
I am not able to resolve ‘lxml.etree.XPathEvalError: Invalid expression’ error on a legal XPATH expression
I am trying to parse an xpath but it is giving Invalid expression error. The code that should work: Expected result is a boolean value but it is showing error: Answer The exception is because name() isn’t a valid node type. Your XPath would only be valid as XPath 2.0 or greater. lxml only supports XPath…
“selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element” while clicking a ‘Next’ button with Selenium
I’m trying to click the Next button using Selenium, I’ve tried with the code below, but it ends in error. The element My code But then it outputs these errors: How can I click that button without errors? Answer This error message… …implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to locate the desir…
Web scraping a text() in python
I am having trouble with a web scraping function. The XPath for the two things I am trying to get are The html is I am trying to have a function to loop through each li in tr[5]. The problem I am having is getting the text(). I have tried a number of different variations of this function This specific
How to find parent elements by python webdriver?
Is there any methods for python+selenium to find parent elements, brother elements, or child elements just like driver.find_element_parent? or driver.find_element_next? or driver.find_element_previous? eg: I’ve tried like below, but fail: How can I get the parent of input element and then, finally, get …