Selenium unable to find DOM node index element on webpage

Question

My goal is to scrape the src link within the video tag on this webpage. This is where I am seeing the video tag along with the link which I want.

• I know how to grab the information within the tag using

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//video')

• But when I tried to find the Xpath of the tag by using the console, I was unable to find it.
• I also tried driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, 'video') but I got <selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="6a5b945439665a2261e0bb7cf4a19c8e", element="127606c2-b043-4b55-b8ff-5456bb39a2c3")> from which I dont know how to get the src link. I tried to use .text but it became blank.
• I tried parsing through the page_source and finding the link manually but I still could'nt find it.
• There is a = $0 right after the end of the video tag, meaning its a [last selected DOM node index]Selenium Duplicate Elements marked with ==$0
• When I type $0 or console.log($0) into the console I get the video tag with the link.
• What should I do scrape this tag and its contents ?

Answer 1

You can get the source attribute with:

[...]
source = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//video').get_attribute('src')
print(source)
[...]

Result in terminal:

blob:https://mplayer.me/d420cb30-ed6e-4772-b169-ed33a5d3ee9f

See Selenium documentation at https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/