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Prabhjot Singh Rai
Prabhjot Singh Rai

Reputation: 2515

Accessing content of all divs having same class name but different xpaths

I am trying to extract data from two divisions in XHTML having the same class name using python but when I try to take out their xpaths, they are different. I tried using 

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
content = driver.find_element_by_class_name("abc")
print content.text

but it gives only the content of first div. I heard this can be done using xpath. The xpaths of the divs are as follows:

//*[@id="u_jsonp_2_o"]/div[2]/div[1]/div[3] 
//*[@id="tl_unit_-5698935668596454905"]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]    
//*[@id="u_jsonp_3_c"]/div[2]/div[1]/div[3]

What I thought, since each xpath has same ending, how can we use this similarity in ending and then access the divisions in python by writing [1],[2],[3].... at the end of the xpath?

Also, I want make content an array containing all the content of classes named abc. Moreover, I don't know how many abcs exist! How to integrate the data of all of them in one content array?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1627

Answers (1)

drkthng
drkthng

Reputation: 6909

In your case it doesn't matter if you use class name or css, you are only searching for "one" element with find_element but you want to find several elements:

you need to use find_element**s**_by_class_name

content = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("abc")
for element in content:
  // here you can work with every single element that has class "abc"
  // do whatever you want
  print element.text

Upvotes: 2

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