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Matthew Kaplan
Matthew Kaplan

Reputation: 15

How to access HTML elements in a nested fashion using Selenium and Python

I'm trying to figure out how to access HTML elements in a nested fashion through Selenium and Python.

For example I have:

box = driver.find_element_by_tag_name('tbody')

which represents the body of the data I'd like to mine. I'd like to iterate through each row in this body (each row characterized by a <tr> tag) using something like:

for driver.find_element_by_tag_name('tr') in box:

But obviously that's not possible because box is a Selenium object and is non-iterable.

What's the best way to do something like this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 68

Answers (1)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193078

An optimum approach would be to construct locator strategies which would traverse from the parent till the descendants as follows:

  • Using CSS_SELECTOR:

    for element in driver.find_elements(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "tbody tr"):
    print(element.text)

  • Using XPATH:

    for element in driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//tbody//tr"):
    print(element.text)

Upvotes: 1

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