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TPPZ
TPPZ

Reputation: 4891

Get content of HTML comment tag with Selenium

I find it difficult to get the content of an HTML comment tag <!-- stuff --> included in the head tag of an HTML page using python 2.7 and selenium.

<head>
   <!-- I would like to get this sentence -->
   [...]
</head>

I got the XPath of that comment using FirePath/FireBug (so I am assuming it is correct): html/head/comment()[1].

Then:

But I would like to get just the content of the comment tag inside the head tag. I am wondering this is not possible with Selenium, but it seems strange to me. How could I get it?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2451

Answers (2)

Florent B.
Florent B.

Reputation: 42518

The Selenium API doesn't support the comment node. However you could easely get the comment with this piece of JavaScript:

head = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("head")
comment = get_element_comment(head)
print(comment)

def get_element_comment(element):
    return element._parent.execute_script("""
      return Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments[0].childNodes)
        .filter(function(e) { return e.nodeType === 8 })
        .map(function(e) { return e.nodeValue.trim() })
        .join('\n');
      """, element)

Upvotes: 3

Eugene
Eugene

Reputation: 1895

You have to get the page source and find (parse) the required comment from there. Something like this: 

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("your url");
var src = driver.PageSource;

Then parse src

Upvotes: 0

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