How to get the text using XPATH-CodePudding

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I am trying to extract the text，'Bullish', using XPATH but it is not working out.

sentiment_search = '//*[@id="canvass-0-CanvassApplet"]/div/ul/li/div/div[3]/div/div/text()'
sentiment = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, sentiment_search).text
try:
    for i in range(len(posts)):
        try:
            WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, sentiment_search)))
            if sentiment == 'Bullish': 
                 print('Bullish')

CodePudding user response：

To extract the text Bullish you need 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, "#canvass-0-CanvassApplet > div > ul > li > div > div:nth-of-type(3) > div > div"))).text)

Using XPATH:

print(WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//*[@id="canvass-0-CanvassApplet"]/div/ul/li/div/div[3]/div/div"))).text)

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

CodePudding user response：

You don't need the "text()" in the xpath:

sentiment_search = '//*[@id="canvass-0-CanvassApplet"]/div/ul/li/div/div[3]/div/div'

and then get the text from the element:

sentiment = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, sentiment_search).text

If there's only one element I suggest to use find_element instead of find_elements which returns list of all matching elements.