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David Rotenberg
David Rotenberg

Reputation: 33

Can't locate id elements with Python3 and Selenium

I'm trying to get all 'id' elements in a certain web page. I can find the ul element that contains them, and I can even find a specific element by id (i.e. browser.find_element_by_id('380797')), but when I'm executing browser.find_all_elements_by_tag_name('id') the result is an empty list. I also tried by css or xpath, same result.

How can I get all id elements in the list? The html looks something like that:

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 99

Answers (3)

Milaan Mandal
Milaan Mandal

Reputation: 17

browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@id="placards-container"]/ul/div[contains(@class,'placard')]

The contains() method is the best approach for detecting the exact type of elements.

Upvotes: 1

lauda
lauda

Reputation: 4173

Use general attributes that are present in all the elements. The rule is: find all div's with id's from the div with placards-container id.

CSS:
browser.find_elements_by_css_selector("#placards-container div[id]") or
browser.find_elements_by_css_selector("#placards-container ul>div[id]")

Xpath:
browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@id='placards-container']//div[@id]") or
browser.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@id='placards-container']/ul/div[@id]")

Upvotes: 0

MertG
MertG

Reputation: 763

You may use execute_script. (better way in my opinion)

external_js = """
    jsonData = [];
    data = document.querySelectorAll("#placards-container > ul")[0];

    for(var row of data["children"]){
        JSON.stringify(jsonData.push({id : row.id}));
    }
    return jsonData;
"""
browser.execute_script(external_js)

Upvotes: 1

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