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Daniel Ortiz
Daniel Ortiz

Reputation: 23

Selenium Python XPath, how to extract only the text in the DIV and not the text in internal spans

Here is the HTML:

<div class="discount-promo" style="" xpath="1">-50%<span class="text">2a Unidad</span></div>

I extract OK text from span:

s = root.find_element_by_xpath('.//div[@class="discount-promo"]//span[@class="text"]')
s.text
'2a Unidad'

but for text inside div:

d = root.find_element_by_xpath('.//div[@class="discount-promo"]')
d.text
'-50%\n2a Unidad'

for this case I need to extract exactly "-50%", or whatever other value it takes, without having to use regex, just by XPath.

regards

Upvotes: 1

Views: 796

Answers (2)

Prophet
Prophet

Reputation: 33361

This short code should give you the parent element text only:

parent_element = root.find_element_by_xpath('.//div[@class="discount-promo"]')
print(driver.execute_script('return arguments[0].firstChild.textContent;', parent_element).strip())

Upvotes: 0

zx485
zx485

Reputation: 29042

You can use this XPath-1.0 expression:

.//div[@class="discount-promo"]/text()[1]

Or, in a whole:

d = root.find_element_by_xpath('.//div[@class="discount-promo"]/text()[1]')

The output should be as expected.

Upvotes: 1

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