I am trying to scrape amazon reviews for a certain product, but I am unable to locate the text for the ratings using selenium. But the same thing is easily scraped using soup.
Here is my code using Soup:
link='same link as mentioned above' url=requests.get(link).content bs=soup(url,'html.parser') for i in bs.find_all('span',{'class':'a-icon-alt'}): print(i.text.split(' ')[0])
##Output 4.3 5.0 1.0 5.0 2.0 4.0 1.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0
Here is my code using Selenium:
import time from selenium import webdriver from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup import requests link='link to the above mentioned page' driver=webdriver.Chrome() driver.get(link) for i in driver.find_elements_by_css_selector('.a-icon-alt'): print(i.text)
I am unable to get the same results with Selenium, all I get are blanks equivalent to the number of items present on that page. I have also tried using XPath and class_name but didn’t get the required response.
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Answer
To get the review ratings Induce WebDriverWait
and wait for presence_of_all_elements_located
() and use get_attribute("innerHTML")
instead of text
Code:
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By link='https://www.amazon.in/BenQ-inch-Bezel-Monitor-Built/product-reviews/B073NTCT4R/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_next_2?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=39' driver=webdriver.Chrome() driver.get(link) elements=WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,".a-icon-alt"))) for i in elements: print(i.get_attribute("innerHTML").split(' ')[0])
Output on console :
4.3 5.0 1.0 5.0 2.0 4.0 1.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0