Select part of the string using selenium-CodePudding

I want to select part of the title of the website.

after inspecting the title, the html code of the website looks like this:

and i want to select only the "2014 Ram 1500" part. For this i wrote the following code:

# car name
            try:
                temp = driver.find_element_by_xpath(
                    '//*[@id="react"]/div/div/div[2]/div[5]/div[2]/div/h1[1]/text()[2]').text
                data.append(temp)
            except:
                data.append('')

but i only getting a empty string(' '). I am using selenium for automation and copying the full Xpath of "2014 Ram 1500" in the code. What im doing wrong? And how i can i only select "2014 Ram 1500" part from the whole title?

CodePudding user response：

The text are in new line, you can split the string based on \n and from string array we could extract the first element.

try:
    temp = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="react"]/div/div/div[2]/div[5]/div[2]/div/h1[1]').text
    a = temp.split('\n')[1]
    print(a)
    data.append(a)
except:
    data.append('')

CodePudding user response：

Can you try like below and confirm.

temp = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="react"]/div/div/div[2]/div[5]/div[2]/div/h1[1]/text()[2]').get_attribute("innerText")

CodePudding user response：

I wrote the below code and it actually worked. This time i copied the Xpath from h1 header and converted it in text. Then using slicing i got exactly what i wanted. Though i am not sure it is best practise or not:

# car name
            try:
                temp = driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/section/div/div/div[2]/div[5]/div[2]/div/h1[1]').text
                temp = temp.split()[1:-2]
                temp = " ".join(e for e in temp)
                data.append(temp)
            except:
                data.append('')