Web scraping DEEPL.com using VBA Excel and Selenium

Question

i'm trying to code a function to translate sentences in Excel using DEEPL.com My approach is using Selenium to scrape the web using Chrome (as IExplore is not supported by the web).

Public Function deepL(txt As String, inputLang As String, outputLang As String)
Dim url As String
Dim driver As New WebDriver

url = "https://www.deepl.com/translator#" & inputLang & "/" & outputLang & "/" & txt
driver.Start "Chrome"
driver.Timeouts.ImplicitWait = 5000
driver.Get url

deepL = driver.FindElementById("target-dummydiv").Text
driver.Close

End Function
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Sub translating()
'test for word "probando" from "es" to "en"
'url: https://www.deepl.com/translator#es/en/probando
'it should return: "testing"
MsgBox (deepL("probando", "es", "en"))
End Sub

The problem comes when loading the web, so the div containing the translation is empty on load, and the GET instruction returns an empty text. But after 1 second, the page refreshes with the correct result:

<div id="target-dummydiv" aria-hidden="true" class="lmt__textarea lmt__textarea_dummydiv" lang="en-US">testing</div>

I tried adding an implicit wait of 5 seconds in order to give time to the webpage to load, but the result is the same.

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: I found that the div with the translation has visibility: hidden. If I show the visibility, the results are correct, but don't know how to get that in my code

Answer 1

OK, I found a solution:

just select the textarea where the translation is located and get the translation with .attribute("value") instead of .text

deepL = driver.FindElementByCss("textarea.lmt__textarea.lmt__target_textarea.lmt__textarea_base_style").Attribute("value")