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Kaøsc
Kaøsc

Reputation: 117

Locating specific img with Python Selenium

I'm trying to download the post on the Instagram page, but every time Selenium selects and downloads the profile photo.

    def downloadPost(self,link):
     os.system("cls")
     self.link = link
     self.browser = webdriver.Chrome(self.drvPath, chrome_options=self.browserProfile)
     self.browser.get(link)
     time.sleep(2)
     img = self.browser.find_element_by_tag_name('img')
     src = img.get_attribute('src')
     urllib.request.urlretrieve(src, f"{self.imgPath}/igpost.png")
     self.browser.close()

The photo tag I want to capture is under the second img tag and I can't identify it.

html code that I try to scrape

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

Arundeep Chohan
Arundeep Chohan

Reputation: 9969

Lots of ways to do this. By grabbing 2nd img tag or the first div with img child class.

self.browser.find_elements_by_tag_name("img")[1]

self.browser.find_element_by_xpath("//div/img")

self.browser.find_element_by_xpath("//img[@alt='whateverattributevalueithas']")

Upvotes: 1

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