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Rakesh Poddar
Rakesh Poddar

Reputation: 193

Python selenium get the value copied to clipboard

There is a button on the page which when I clicked copies, say a value to the clipboard.

I'm trying to store that value in a variable with python selenium this way:

# Clicking the button using xpath will copy the value to Clipboard

value = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="app-content"]/div/div[4]/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/button').click()

# I try to print the value using

print(value)

But I get the result as None.

Kindly help me in doing this in correct way.

Thanks in Advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4461

Answers (2)

Pamela Camargo
Pamela Camargo

Reputation: 1

First of all thanks @Muhteva for the solution, it helped me. But when I tried it with the headless mode I took this error:

_tkinter.TclError: CLIPBOARD selection doesn't exist or form "STRING" not defined

PS: it works well when the headless mode is disabled

Upvotes: 0

Muhteva
Muhteva

Reputation: 2832

First of all, printing the value is not meaningful because click() function in Selenium doesn't return anything. You can store the text on your clipboard to a variable with this snippet:

import tkinter as tk

root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()  # to hide the window
variable = root.clipboard_get()

Upvotes: 5

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