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KDMcCracken
KDMcCracken

Reputation: 17

Selenium cant seem to find text on page

HTML:

<div class="col-md-8 no-padding-991" id="status">
  <b>Area:</b>
  157 Meters
  <sup>2</sup>
  | 1689.93 Feet
  <sup>2</sup>
  | 0.02 Ha | 0.04 Acres | 0 Miles
  <sup>2</sup> 
  | 0 Km
  <sup>2</sup>
  <br>
  <b>Perimeter:</b>
  56.06 Meters | 0.06 Km | 0.03 Miles | 184 Feet | 61.00 Yards 
</div>

I am trying to pull that value from the Area: tag yet for some reason, when I run this code:

print("scraping calc maps")
driver.get(url)

building_specs = driver.find_element_by_id("status")
print("Building specs")
print(building_specs.text)

It only pulls "Area: --", with no numbers.

Thanks for the help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (2)

rafalou38
rafalou38

Reputation: 602

Try to do:

print("scraping calc maps")
driver.get(url)

building_specs =   driver.find_element_by_id("status")
print("Building specs")
print(building_specs.get_attribute('innerHTML'))

Upvotes: 1

Arakis
Arakis

Reputation: 889

The reason is, the .text attribute returns only the first text literal it finds. To get a concatenated text of all child nodes, you can query the innerHTML or innerText attribute:

# get child HTML
print(building_specs.get_attribute("innerHTML"));
# get child Text
print(building_specs.get_attribute("innerText"));

Upvotes: 0

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