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Reputation: 75

extract email from hotmail via selenium

emailcontent = []
def getEmails(self):
    self.browser.get("https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/inbox")
    time.sleep(3)
    content = self.browser.find_elements_by_css_selector("._2ZDUqsleGa-jar5wAYvVzV") 
    for c in content:
        c.click() # opens the email
    content = self.browser.find_element_by_dir("Itr").text 
    # div dir="Itr" only common tag for email contents
    emailcontent.append(content)

getEmails()

txt = ""
for a in emailcontent:
    txt += "{:<30} \n".format(a)
    with open("new.txt", "a") as output:
        output.write(txt)

os.startfile('new.txt')

I have a code as above, previous parts of codes basically enters my hotmail/outlook account and no any problem with them. I want this part to open every single email and save content to txt file but it doesnt happen. Only common tag for email contents are div dir="Itr" and I dont know how to find_element_... them one by one. Probably I need to use loops but I couldn't make it. Anyone wants to help?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 502

Answers (1)

Prophet
Prophet

Reputation: 33361

Here

content = self.browser.find_elements_by_css_selector("._2ZDUqsleGa-jar5wAYvVzV")

You have to improve the locator. Otherwise the first matching element is not what you want.
Take this instead:

content = self.browser.find_elements_by_css_selector("div._2ZDUqsleGa-jar5wAYvVzV")

after expanding each email you can retrieve the content with div.rps_b62 css_selector.
So you code can be:

content = self.browser.find_elements_by_css_selector("div._2ZDUqsleGa-jar5wAYvVzV") 
for c in content:
    c.click()
    time.sleep(1)
    content = self.browser.find_element_by_css_selector("div.rps_b62").text 
    emailcontent.append(content)

taking the content and appending it to list should be done inside the for loop.
It also should be a delay there to let the content opened correctly.
As the above.

Upvotes: 1

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