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Leonardo Cardoso
Leonardo Cardoso

Reputation: 183

Listing select option values with Selenium and Python

I have the following HTML code

<select name="countries" class_id="countries">
    <option value="-1">--SELECT COUNTRY--</option>
    <option value="459">New Zealand</option>
    <option value="100">USA</option>
    <option value="300">UK</option>
</select>

I am trying to get a list of the option values (like 459, 100, etc, not the text) using Selenium.

At the moment I have the following Python code

from selenium import webdriver

def country_values(website_url):
    browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    browser.get(website_url)
    html_code=browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//select[@name='countries']")[0].get_attribute("innerHTML")
    return html_code

As you can see the code returns pure HTML, which I am parsing with HTMLParser library. Is there any way to get the option values just using Selenium? In other words, without having to parse the result from Selenium?

Upvotes: 18

Views: 43269

Answers (5)

Shuki Molk
Shuki Molk

Reputation: 51

Since selenuim methods like find_elements_by_tag_name are now descripted, TehTris' answer (which is great) might need a little update.

Firstly, we make sure we also import:

from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select

Then we set our driver (aka browser) and go to the desired url:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get("desired_url.com")

Now we create the select_box like this:

select_box = Select(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//select[@name="countries"]'))

And now we can extract the values by iterating over select_box.options

[i.get_attribute('value') for i in select_box.options]

Upvotes: 0

Teodor Ciuraru
Teodor Ciuraru

Reputation: 3477

Simpler version:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select 

dropdown_menu = Select(driver.find_element_by_name(<NAME>))
   
for option in dropdown_menu.options:
            print(option.text, option.get_attribute('value'))

Upvotes: 12

TehTris
TehTris

Reputation: 3217

check it out, here is how i did it before i knew what the Select Module did

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
#code to get you to the page

select_box = browser.find_element_by_name("countries") 
# if your select_box has a name.. why use xpath?..... 
# this step could use either xpath or name, but name is sooo much easier.

options = [x for x in select_box.find_elements_by_tag_name("option")]
# this part is cool, because it searches the elements contained inside of select_box 
# and then adds them to the list options if they have the tag name "options"

for element in options:
    print(element.get_attribute("value"))
    # or append to list or whatever you want here

outputs like this

-1
459
100
300

Upvotes: 33

vitaliis
vitaliis

Reputation: 4212

A little improved answer. In Selenium and Python, if you want to get all attribute values, use following list comprehension:

options = [x.get_attribute("value") for x in driver.find_element_by_id("yourlocator").find_elements_by_tag_name("option")]
print(options)

Simple call to .text won't work for lists. Use:

options = [x.get_attribute("innerText") for x in driver.find_element_by_id("yourlocator").find_elements_by_tag_name("option")]
print(options)

Upvotes: 1

unutbu
unutbu

Reputation: 880777

import selenium.webdriver as webdriver
import selenium.webdriver.support.ui as UI
import contextlib

with contextlib.closing(webdriver.Firefox()) as driver:
    driver.get(url)
    select = UI.Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath('//select[@name="countries"]'))
    for option in select.options:
        print(option.text, option.get_attribute('value'))

prints

(u'--SELECT COUNTRY--', u'-1')
(u'New Zealand', u'459')
(u'USA', u'100')
(u'UK', u'300')

I learned this here. See also the docs.

Upvotes: 15

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