I am using python selenium and trying to get the email listed below:

 <a class="contactAction-214" aria-label="Email [email protected]" tabindex="0" draggable="false" href="mailto:[email protected]"><i data-icon-name="Mail" aria-hidden="true" class="icon-224"></i><span class="text-219"><span>[email protected]</span></span></a>

I am trying to get the email: [email protected] above; I have been stuck on this for about an hour now and I think the easiest way to do this would be to get the href or aria-label, any help appriceated!

CodePudding user response：

You could try it like this. You first find the Xpath to the particular part of the HTML you are looking for and then you ask for the aria-label attribute

email = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[@class='contactAction-214']").get_attribute("aria-label")

CodePudding user response：

To print the text [email protected] you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using css_selector and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print(driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[class^='contactAction'][aria-label^='Email'][href] span[class] > span").get_attribute("innerHTML"))
  

• Using xpath and text attribute:

  print(driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//a[starts-with(@class, 'contactAction') and starts-with(@aria-label, 'Email')][@href]//span[@class]/span").text)
  

Ideally you need to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility_of_element_located() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• Using CSS_SELECTOR and text attribute:

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[class^='contactAction'][aria-label^='Email'][href] span[class] > span"))).text)
  

• Using XPATH and get_attribute("innerHTML"):

  print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[starts-with(@class, 'contactAction') and starts-with(@aria-label, 'Email')][@href]//span[@class]/span"))).get_attribute("innerHTML"))
  

• 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
  

You can find a relevant discussion in How to retrieve the text of a WebElement using Selenium - Python

References

Link to useful documentation:

• get_attribute() method Gets the given attribute or property of the element.
• text attribute returns The text of the element.
• Difference between text and innerHTML using Selenium