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Revolucion for Monica
Revolucion for Monica

Reputation: 3306

Getting text from textarea of containers with Selenium

I'm trying to retrieve text from a text box of containers/cards from this google forms. Basically I want to retrieve the questions and the related answers.

Question Test boxes inside a container have more or less the following html code:

<textarea 
class="appsMaterialWizTextinputTextareaInput exportTextarea" 
jsname="YPqjbf" 
data-rows="0" 
tabindex="0" 
aria-label="Intitulé de la question" 
jscontroller="RKFxf" 
jsaction="input:Lg5SV;ti6hGc:XMgOHc;rcuQ6b:WYd;" 
data-disable-newlines="true" 
dir="auto" 
data-initial-dir="auto" 
data-initial-value="How do you feel about your next vacation after COVID-19?" 
style="height: 24px;">
How do you feel about your next vacation after COVID-19?
</textarea>

I thought my code could do it, but the result is blank:

# I get all the card with questions and answers inside
containers = driver.find_elements_by_class_name(
    "freebirdFormeditorViewItemcardRoot.item-dlg-affectsIndex.item-dlg-dragTarget"
)
print("containers: ", containers)

# for each card
for container in containers:
    try:
        # Get the question
        question = container.find_element_by_class_name(
            "appsMaterialWizTextinputTextareaInput.exportTextarea"
        )
    except NoSuchElementException:
        print("NoSuchElementException: ")
        continue
    print("question: ", question.text)

The result

question:

Nothing ... It seems that question gets all the textarea and not the one specific to the card/container.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 163

Answers (1)

Asmoun
Asmoun

Reputation: 1747

Try to get it by the aria-label attribute using CSS selector like following :

question = container.find_element_by_css_selector(".exportTextarea[aria-label='Intitulé de la question']")

Selenium can't get an element that has multiple classes with find_element_by_class_name the only way to achieve that is using CSS selector like this :

find_element_by_css_selector("classOne classTwo")

Upvotes: 4

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