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John Cook
John Cook

Reputation: 17

How to get selenium web driver on python to find elements on css selectors of a following page?

I am trying to get selenium to web scrape the first paragraph of wiki pages using CSS selectors.

When I run this code, it seems to only select ones from the original web page

https://en.wikipedia.org

and not what I am searching for, in this case 'cats'.

Any help with this would be awesome!


browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='D:\Import Files that I also want backed up\Jupyter Notebooks\Python Projects\Selenium\driverss\geckodriver.exe')
browser.get('https://en.wikipedia.org')

search_elem = browser.find_element_by_css_selector('#searchInput')

search_elem.send_keys('cats')
search_elem.submit()


results_elem = browser.find_element_by_css_selector('p')

print(results_elem.text)


output:

Adventure Time is an American fantasy animated television series created .....

Upvotes: 0

Views: 117

Answers (1)

KunduK
KunduK

Reputation: 33384

To get the first paragraph text from wiki page.Induce WebDriverWait() and visibility_of_element_located() and following css selector.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='D:\Import Files that I also want backed up\Jupyter Notebooks\Python Projects\Selenium\driverss\geckodriver.exe')
browser.get('https://en.wikipedia.org')
search_elem = browser.find_element_by_css_selector('#searchInput')
search_elem.send_keys('cats')
search_elem.submit()
results_elem=WebDriverWait(browser,10).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"div.mw-parser-output p:nth-of-type(3)")))
print(results_elem.text)

Upvotes: 1

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