using selenium to locate dates of reviews not replys, python-CodePudding

how would i get the date from reviews not replies?

current code is:

date_ref = driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, "time")

but that gets both date from reviews and replies

Reviews

<time datetime="2022-02-03T06:11:02.000Z"  data-service-review-date-time-ago="true" title="Thursday, 3 February 2022, 05:11:02 pm">3 Feb 2022</time>

Replies

<time datetime="2022-02-07T03:31:52.999Z" 
 data-service-review-business-reply-date-time-ago="true" title="Monday, 7 February 2022, 02:31:52 pm">7 Feb 2022</time>

how can i grab the date from the reviews but not the replies?

thanks

CodePudding user response：

You are using TAG_NAME which is the same for both reviews and replies. Therefore results in 2 nodes, (could be many however that depends on your HTML-DOM).

If you want to differentiate the nodes, I see that data-service-review-date-time-ago attribute is unique for review.

Hence changing that to either CSS/XPATH would get the job done.

CSS: time[data-service-review-date-time-ago]

XPATH: //time[@data-service-review-date-time-ago]

You can call them using driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//time[@data-service-review-date-time-ago]") or driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "time[data-service-review-date-time-ago]") etc.

Also, note that you are using find_elements which would return a list of web elements, may be you wanted to use find_element if you were targeting the first node.