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Narek Hakobyan
Narek Hakobyan

Reputation: 107

How to get all the texts displayed on a Web Page using Robot Framework?

I'm using Robotframework to automate tests, it uses the Selenium2 Library and gives the opportunity to extend many libraries (Java, Python, AngularJS, etc.).

Here's my question.

Is there a way to get all the texts displayed on a page?

I can get any specific text by the element locator, but currently I need to write a function which gets all the texts displayed on the page.

Does anyone know a way? Or a hint how to get things going?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2739

Answers (1)

Todor Minakov
Todor Minakov

Reputation: 20067

You can do that by getting the text content of the <body> tag:

${text}=  Get Text  //body
Log       ${text}    # a very long string, with newlines as delimiters b/n the different tags
${text as list}=  Split To Lines  ${text}
Log       ${text as list}   # a list, each member is the different tag's text

Another (non-working with SE) way to do it is to go after each element, with a locator like //body//*, producing webelements with Get Webelements on it.
But when you callGet Text on each produced webelement, it will return its text, plus the ones for all its children - thus duplicating the data. That can be done in pure xpath/xslt (with text(), . and normalize-space()), but regretfully not through webdriver/selenium (it always expects a node as argument).
The purpose of that ^ de-tour from the answer was to present the outcome of a 2 minute research :), and to get any feedback from someone that might have actually accomplished it with Get Text on each element of the page.

Upvotes: 1

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