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Francisco Rodriguez
Francisco Rodriguez

Reputation: 43

Python Selenium - Extract Instagram hashtags from a Photo

I have a problem with extracting the hashtags from a selected photo

the code I'm workin now is

<a class=" abcd" href="/explore/tags/ht1/" tabindex="0">#ht1</a>
<a class=" abcd" href="/explore/tags/ht2/" tabindex="0">#ht2</a>
<a class=" abcd" href="/explore/tags/ht3/" tabindex="0">#ht3</a>
<a class=" abcd" href="/explore/tags/ht4/" tabindex="0">#ht4</a>

So I need to place them on a list, so I write

tags = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('abcd')

And that works, I can actually can print the list and check for the exact number of Ht

But when I do

tags[0].text

Only executes a white line and I need to print "#ht1" I tested that with other single classes and it worked, I'm thinking that the problem is about printing a list.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 372

Answers (1)

Arundeep Chohan
Arundeep Chohan

Reputation: 9969

You might need to wait for the page to load and the elements to become visibile.

tags = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('abcd')

replace with

WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.visibility_of_all_elements_located((By.CLASS_NAME,"abcd")))

imports

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait 
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

Upvotes: 2

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