Python/Selenium print element value returns <session="xxx", element="xxx">-CodePudding

I am trying to code a code that returns the weather of a city. For this I use selenium (I know there is better libraries but this is the one I am most comfy with). First I make the code search "weather xxx" and then use the google feature that automatically displays all infos.

Then I for example select the temperarture, there is th HTML, 3 is the value I want to print:

<span  id="wob_tm" style="display:inline">3</span>

But when I print it returns:

<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement (session="fb232f60015b08ee6db42b7fa83bd990", element="50c95ed2-17ce-41eb-835a-e7f9d0360540")>

How can I transform or navigate the output or xpath to get the value? (3)

Full code:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys as k
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get("https://google.com/")

def process():
    global temperature
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[@id="L2AGLb"]/div').click()
    driver.find_element(By.NAME,'q').send_keys(city, ' weather' k.RETURN)
    temperature = driver.find_element(By.ID,'wob_tm')

city = input('City: ')
process()

print(temperature)
driver.quit()

P.S, I am using ID to locate the element but it returns the same "weird" output with XPATH etc...

Thanks for your help

CodePudding user response：

Your code is almost good. All you missing is extracting the text value from the web element.
This should work better:

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys as k
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get("https://google.com/")

def process():
    global temperature
    driver.find_element(By.XPATH,'//*[@id="L2AGLb"]/div').click()
    driver.find_element(By.NAME,'q').send_keys(city, ' weather' k.RETURN)
    temperature = driver.find_element(By.ID,'wob_tm')

city = input('City: ')
process()

print(temperature.text)
driver.quit()

You will need to add waits here, preferably Expected Conditions explicit waits, as following:

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

PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get("https://google.com/")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)


def process():
    global temperature
    wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="L2AGLb"]/div'))).click()

    wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.NAME, 'q'))).send_keys(city, ' weather' k.RETURN)
    temperature = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'wob_tm'))).text

city = input('City: ')
process()

print(temperature)
driver.quit()

CodePudding user response：

thanks for all the answers, here is my finished code I completed with the help of @Prophet:

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

PATH = "C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get("https://google.com/")
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)

def process():
    global temperature
    global precipitation
    global wind
    global humidity
    global time
    global forecast

    #accepting google cookies and selecting language
    wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME,'V5OCtd'))).click()
    if language == 'en':
        wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,'//*[@id="tbTubd"]/div/li[13]'))).click()
    if language == 'fr':
        wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="tbTubd"]/div/li[18]'))).click()
    if language == 'de':
        wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="tbTubd"]/div/li[9]'))).click()

    wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="L2AGLb"]/div'))).click()

    #searching for weather
    wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.NAME, 'q'))).send_keys(city, ' weather' k.RETURN)

    #scraping weather data and assigning to variables
    temperature = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'wob_tm'))).text
    wind = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'wob_ws'))).text
    precipitation = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'wob_pp'))).text
    humidity = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'wob_hm'))).text
    time = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'wob_dts'))).text
    forecast = wait.until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, 'wob_dc'))).text


def info():

    #printing weather info
    print('Date: ', time)
    print('Forecast: ', forecast)
    print('Temperature: ',temperature,'°C')
    print('Wind: ',wind)
    print('Precipitation: ', precipitation)
    print('Humidity: ', humidity)

#city and language input
city = input('City: ')
language = input('Language [en,fr,de]: ')
if language != 'fr':
    if language != 'de':
         if language !='en':
            print('Language not supported')
            exit()
process()
info()

#leave driver
driver.quit()