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YDao
YDao

Reputation: 325

Selenium - How to identify li item based on value

I have the following list in a webpage that I am trying to scrape:

<div class="rcbScroll rcbWidth" style="height: 54px; width: 100%;">
<ul class="rcbList">
<li class="rcbItem">Jules Salles-Wagner (FRENCH, 1814–1898)</li>
<li class="rcbItem">Peter Nadin (BRITISH, 1954)</li>
<li class="rcbItem">Uri Aran (ISRAELI, 1977)</li>
</ul>
</div>

I want to select the item that contains the text Uri Aran. How can I do that through Selenium? There are other lists with different class name in the same website as well.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 753

Answers (2)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193088

To locate the element with text Uri Aran you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following locator strategies:

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR and nth-child():

    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.rcbScroll.rcbWidth > ul.rcbList li:nth-child(3)")))

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR and nth-of-type():

    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.rcbScroll.rcbWidth > ul.rcbList li:nth-of-type(3)")))

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR and last-child:

    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.rcbScroll.rcbWidth > ul.rcbList li:last-child")))

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR and last-of-type:

    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.rcbScroll.rcbWidth > ul.rcbList li:last-of-type")))

  • Using XPATH and index:

    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='rcbScroll rcbWidth']/ul[@class='rcbList']//following::li[3]")))

  • Using XPATH and last():

    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='rcbScroll rcbWidth']/ul[@class='rcbList']//li[last()]")))

  • Using XPATH and innerText:

    element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//li[starts-with(., 'Uri Aran')]")))

  • Note : You have to add the following imports :

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

Upvotes: 0

Arundeep Chohan
Arundeep Chohan

Reputation: 9969

driver.find_element(By.XPATH,"//li[@class='rcbItem' and contains(text(),'Uri Aran')]").click()

You'd want to get the one that contains the text of Uri Aran.

Upvotes: 2

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