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tonispark
tonispark

Reputation: 143

Noob question - Python, Selenium, XPATH - Search if text is on website

I've got just an issue with some basic understanding regarding xpath. I've read in the xpath documentation and searched here for some time now (and obviously I have just overseen some basics) but I just got lost with the following case.

<div class="foo">
    <h1 class="title">TRANSFERS</h1>
</div>

I know that there are several ways to get the HELLOWORLD from my code using xpath. But what do I do if I just want to search the whole page to see if it contains "HELLOWORLD" anywhere?

Reading the documentation, I came to that statement which gives me an error message:

y = driver.find_element_by_xpath([contains(text()='TRANSFERS')])

  File "<ipython-input-587-f5ff19bd101b>", line 1
    y = driver.find_element_by_xpath([contains(text()='TRANSFERS')])
                                               ^
SyntaxError: expression cannot contain assignment, perhaps you meant "=="?

What am I missing here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 62

Answers (2)

YourHelper
YourHelper

Reputation: 735

Use this : Try to create a list with WEBELEMENTS named x and then :

    x=driver.find_elements_by_xpath([contains(.,'TRANSFERS')]

this won’t cause an error even if it doesn’t find and anything and will just return an empty list Have fun ;)

Upvotes: 0

KunduK
KunduK

Reputation: 33384

Your xpath is wrong.

Try either of the following xpath options to identify text of the node.

y = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(text(),'TRANSFERS')]")

OR

y = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[contains(.,'TRANSFERS')]")

OR

y = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[text()='TRANSFERS']")

Upvotes: 1

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