How can I print the value of the href attribute?

<a href="aaaaa.pdf"></a>

How can I print the link aaaaa.pdf with python selenium?

HTML:

<div >
    <a href="aaaaa.pdf"></a>
</div>

CodePudding user response：

You can do like this:

print(driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".xxxx a").get_attribute('href'))

CodePudding user response：

div.xxxx a

first, check if this CSS_SELECTOR is representing the desired element.

Steps to check:

Press F12 in Chrome -> go to element section -> do a CTRL F -> then paste the css and see, if your desired element is getting highlighted with 1/1 matching node.

If yes, then use explicit waits:

wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)
print(wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.xxxx a"))).get_attribute('href'))

Imports:

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

CodePudding user response：

Try the below:

   pName = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".xxxx").text
    print(pName)

or

   pName = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".xxxx").get_attribute("href")
   print(pName)

CodePudding user response：

The value of the href attribute i.e. aaaaa.pdf is within the <a> tag which is the only descendant of the <div> tag.

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Solution

To print the value of the href attribute you can use either of the following locator strategies:

• Using css_selector:

  print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.xxxx > a").get_attribute("href"))
  

• Using xpath:

  print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//div[@class='xxxx']/a").get_attribute("href"))
  

To extract the value ideally you have to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div.xxxx > a"))).get_attribute("href"))
  

• Using XPATH:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//div[@class='xxxx']/a"))).get_attribute("href"))
  

• Note : You have to add the following imports :

  from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
  from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
  from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC