Reputation: 93
I'm using Selenium in Python to open a web page and I'm trying to get the list of values from a specific dropdown list. Let's say the HTML code for the dropdown list looks like this:
<select class="mdc-select__input" name="nouveau-num" data-msisdn-loaded="0"> <option value="" selected="selected"></option>
<option value="351 8320175">351 8320175</option>
<option value="351 8652736">351 8652736</option>
<option value="351 8783295">351 8783295</option>
<option value="351 8094085">351 8094085</option>
<option value="351 8861691">351 8861691</option>
<option value="351 8271705">351 8271705</option>
<option value="351 8970191">351 8970191</option>
<option value="351 8965848">351 8965848</option>
<option value="351 8353924">351 8353924</option>
<option value="351 8988158">351 8988158</option>
</select>
And I want to retrieve all the values between <option>
tags. I tried to do a browser.page_source
which returns the HTML source of the web page and then do a regular expression (something like <option value="[0-9 ]*">
) but the result is empty. For some reason however, the HTML code above is not in the HTML page source code retrieved by Selenium. Any ideas how I can approach this differently/what is wrong with the current approach?
Upvotes: 8
Views: 11562
Reputation: 1
def verify_dropdown_value(self, Elementlocator, LocatorType, Expectedvalue):
time.sleep(5)
Value = self.helper.identify_element(Elementlocator, LocatorType, "Value")
#ActualValue = Value.get_attribute('value')
#options = Value.options
ActualValue = Value.text
if ActualValue == Expectedvalue:
print("Pass")
return True
else:
print("Fail")
return False
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 837
for this i do:
Get the xpath. (//label/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[1])
Put "/*"
at the end (//label/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/*)
Find it with driver.find_elements (This is important, if you ommit the "s" of the end it will fail) (lista = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, '//label/div/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/*'))
then, you will get a list of web elements (not of strings), i called it "lista"
use a for loop and put the values into a list.
listaItems = list()
for i in listaItems: listaItems.appeend(i.text)
And thats all.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 131
You can create a Select
object and iterate over the amount of options with a loop.
For example:
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
selector = Select(driver.find_element_by_name("nouveau-num"))
options = selector.options
for index in range(0, len(options)-1):
print(options[index])
I tried the code on the link you provided and there seems to be a delay until the dropdown's values are loaded. In addition I forgot that options has a list of elements so you need to specify .text. On top of all that By.NAME
seems to work better than find_element_by_name
Here is the corrected code:
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
dropdown = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "nouveau-num")
selector = Select(dropdown)
# Waiting for the values to load
element = WebDriverWait(driver,
10).until(EC.element_to_be_selected(selector.options[0]))
options = selector.options
for index in range(1, len(options)-1):
print(options[index].text)
Using this code I receive the following results:
351 8631174
351 8586821
351 8014561
351 8831839
351 8957001
351 8673968
351 8612034
351 8585995
351 8438130
Upvotes: 6
Reputation: 10403
According to this brilliant answer parsing HTML with Regex is never a good idea.
You better use find_elements_by_css_selector
or find_elements_by_xpath
.
Example with css selectors:
for tag in browser.find_elements_by_css_selector('select[name=nouveau-num] option'):
value = tag.get_attribute('value')
text = tag.text
Upvotes: 2